politician Quotes

• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

  - Karl Marx

• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well'.

  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  - Abraham Lincoln

• This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

  - John F. Kennedy

• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

  - Theodore Roosevelt

• The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

  - Calvin Coolidge

• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  - Samuel Adams

• This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

  - Ronald Reagan

• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  - Margaret Thatcher

• Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

  - Marcus Aurelius