The keenest of political weapons. [ Bryant ]
The guerilla weapon of political warfare. [ Horace Greeley ]
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity. [ George William Curtis ]
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. [ Horace Mann ]
Political parties are the only places left to us where people don't talk politics. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. [ Gibbon ]
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth, - the result of free individual action, energy, and independence. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all. [ Burke ]
When the press is the echo of sages and reformers, it works well; when it is the echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds political excitement. [ Lamartine ]
There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights. [ Junius ]
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim.
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]