“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.” YearsWarStatesWholeCausesUnitedViewsHalfCasesUnited StatesPoliticianSlaverySlaveConclusionRebellionGreat War Book:The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” LifeMatterPoliticalPoliticsLeftSeriousPoliticianConclusionSeriousnessFunny PoliticalPoliticians And PoliticsPolitics FunnyFunny Politician Author:Charles de Gaulle
“Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.” WorldDifferentAbleNationsPlanetsPoliticianProsperityDecadesConclusionVarietyOrganizedRoamingRupees Author:Louis Rukeyser
“I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.” IfsWould BeJobsPoliticalPoliticianDrawsConclusion Author:Thomas Piketty
“Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” WorldShouldMayHelpingStoriesUseWishFictionPoliticianPleaseLogicMethodScience FictionCleanConclusionDictionaryDetectivesSystematicDetective StoriesWrong Conclusion Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.” ThinkingMindFirstsPoliticalPoliticianFindingsArgumentDifficultyPreparedConclusionShockedOpen MindIrresponsiblePolitical Thinking Author:Richard Crossman
“A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.” WayLightViewsCommonWorstPoliticianStrategyPhilosopherCommittedArguingVersionsConclusionOpponentsImmuneSuggestingRhetoricalRhetorical Strategies Author:Dale Jamieson