Home / Topics / Politics Quotes

Politics Quotes

Browse 9821 quotes about Politics.

Politics Quotes

“Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”

World Wisdom Politics Individual Struggle Economy Rights Groups Security Method Bills Temptation Communism Liberalism Subtle Our World Heritage Bill Of Rights Erode

Author:Earl Warren

“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.”

Mind Politics Rights Tragedy Bills Threat Climate Communism Patriotic Insightful Repression Concealed Cloaks Sinister Bill Of Rights Anti Communism

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

People Should Government Political Politics Rights Bills Refuse Civil Rights Patriotic Entitled Bill Of Rights Individual Rights Inference Central Government

Author:Thomas Jefferson