Famous Quotes

"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."

H. G. Wells on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by H. G. Wells

• "Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

• "In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."

• "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

• "There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."

• "History is a race between education and catastrophe."