Politicians
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon I (1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French general.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.
The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist and actor.
Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.