Politician

Explore 1184 quotes by Politicians

Sort

I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides.

Donald Trump

On the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that included white supremacists and counter-demonstrators.

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Trump, Donald. Statement about deadly violence in Virginia. 15 Aug. 2017, Trump Tower, New York City, NY, USA. Press conference.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

While in Europe, I often amused myself with contemplating the characters of the then reigning sovereigns of Europe. Lous XVI was a fool, of my own knowledge, and in despite of the answers made at his trial. The King of Spain was a fool, and of Naples the same. They passed their lives in hunting, and despatched two courtiers a week, one thousand miles, to let each other know what game they had killed the preceding days. The King of Sardinia was a fool. All these were Bourbons. The Queen of Portugal, a Braganza, was an idiot by nature. And so was the King of Denmark. Their sons, as regents, exercised the powers of government. The King of Prussia, successor to the great Frederick, was a mere hog in body as well as in mind. Gustavus of Sweden, and Joseph of Austria, were really crazy, and George of England you know was in a straight waistcoat.

Thomas Jefferson

Read this letter at the National Archives website

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Governor John Langdon. 5 Mar. 1810.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Governor John Langdon, March 5, 1810." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

John Adams

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 15 July 1813.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1813, with Postscript from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 15 July 1813],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0247.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 6, ch. 9.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1

Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon

Read Federalist No. 1 at the Library of Congress website

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 1: General Introduction." Independent Journal, 27 Oct. 1787.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

The American people have spoken-but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said.

Bill Clinton

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Clinton, Bill. Comment on 2000 presidential election. 8 Nov. 2000, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 78

Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon

Read Federalist No. 78 at the Library of Congress website

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department." The Federalist, A Collection of Essays." New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Hope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper.

Francis Bacon

Apophthegms New and Old

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Bacon, Francis. Apophthegms New and Old. London: Hanna Barret/Richard Whittaker, 1625, no. 36.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington. 16 Jan. 1787.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Col. Edward Carrington, Jan. 16, 1787." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Francis Bacon

Buy Francis Bacon's Major Works at Amazon Buy Francis Bacon's Major Works at Amazon

Read Of Gardens at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Bacon, Francis "Of Gardens." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Gardens." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

Read the full text of this speech at umich.edu

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the Illinois Legislature." 11 Jan. 1837, Vandalia, IL, USA.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the Illinois Legislature January 11, 1837." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes, we can. It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land.

Barack Obama

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Obama, Barack. Remarks on New Hampshire primary night. New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. 8 Jan. 2008, Nashua, NH, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

Read the full text of this quote at umich.edu

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Definition of Democracy." 1 Aug. 1858?

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "On Slavery and Democracy, 1858?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 65

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon Buy The Federalist Papers at Amazon

Read Federalist No. 65 at the Library of Congress website

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 65: The Powers of the Senate Continued." New York Packet, 7 Mar. 1788.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 65: Other powers: consent to executive appointments; impeachments.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.