The Teaching Of Politics Is That The Government, Which Was Set For Protection And Comfort Of All Good Citizens, Becomes The Principal Obstruction And Nuisance With Which We Have To Contend? The Cheat And Bully And Malefactor We Meet Everywhere Is The Government.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

Sometimes In Politics One Must Duel With Skunks, But No One Should Be Fool Enough To Allow The Skunks To Choose The Weapons.
~ Lester R Bittel

The Whole Aim Of Practical Politics Is To Keep The Populace In A Continual State Of Alarm And Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety By Menacing Them With An Endless Series Of Hobgoblins, All Of Them Imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken

Politics Is War Without Bloodshed While War Is Politics With Bloodshed.
~ Mao Tse-tung

Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.
~ Henry Adams

A Passion For Politics Stems Usually From An Insatiable Need, Either For Power, Or For Friendship And Adulation, Or A Combination Of Both.
~ Fawn M. Brodie

In Politics You Must Always Keep Running With The Pack. The Moment That You Falter And They Sense That You Are Injured, The Rest Will Turn On You Like Wolves.
~ R. A. Butle

I Must Study Politics And War That My Sons May Have Liberty To Study Mathematics And Philosophy. My Sons Ought To Study Mathematics And Philosophy, Geography, Natural History, Naval Architecture, Navigation, Commerce, And Agriculture, In Order To Give Their Children A Right To Study Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, And Porcelain.
~ John Adams

In Politics I Am Growing Indifferent -- I Would Like It, If I Could Now Return To My Planting And Books At Home.
~ Francois Arouet

Those Who Do Not Do Politics Will Be Done In By Politics.
~ French Prove

I Wish That All Americans Would Realize That American Politics Is World Politics.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Those Who Are Too Smart To Engage In Politics Are Punished By Being Governed By Those Who Are Dumber.
~ Plato