Chew the cud of politics. [ Swift ]
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. [ Emerson ]
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. [ Sheridan ]
No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics. [ Lamb ]
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. [ Heine ]
Political parties are the only places left to us where people don't talk politics. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. [ Bovee ]
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs. [ Emerson ]
Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion. [ Junius ]
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! [ Swift ]
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. [ St. Evremond ]
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]