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Politics (from Greek: πολιτικός politikos, meaning "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a global, civic or individual level. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state. Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities.
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- Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
- Lord Acton in 'Nationality', in The Home and Foreign Review (July 1862).
- Alternative version quoted in Arrillaga, Pauline (21 October 2006). "On the Road with Texas Candidate Kinky". Associated Press (via Yahoo! News). Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
- All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 1887. Reprinted in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, 1949, Boston:The Beacon Press, p. 364.
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
- POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
- PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
- Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary.
- Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
- Attributed to William F. Buckley, Jr. by Jonathon Green, The Cynics' Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) , p. 34.
- Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
- Art Buchwald,Quotations for our Time by Laurence J. Peter (1977).
- Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns, quoted in Antony Jay, Lend Me Your Ears: The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. Oxford University Press, (p.49-50).
- Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.
- Michael Bloomberg, "The Changing Gun Debate", Newsweek April 30, 2007.
- The pendulum will swing back.
- Joseph Gurney Cannon, maxim indicating that in life and politics the things detested today may be praised tomorrow. Quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1923.—Congressional Record, March 4, 1923, vol. 64, p. 5714. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who was Speaker of the House 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years.
- An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Attributed to Simon Cameron by Allen Johnson, Chronicles of America Series, Yale University Press, 1918. (Cameron was forced to resign as United States Secretary of War in 1862, due to allegations of corruption).
- The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
- Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790.
- Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
- Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
- Politicians are like nappies, they should be changed regularly and for the same reason.
- Ken Dodd
- This quote has been credited to multiple sources, including Mark Twain, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (translated from Portuguese), and "unknown, originated around 1992" (see The Big Apple, Entry from December 12, 2009: "Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason").
- The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
- Alvin R. Dyer in Ensign (November 1968)
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) edited by Paul A. Schilpp
- That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.
- Albert Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?" a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in New York Times (22 Apr 1955), 24
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Whether or not our position fairly can be charged as "apolitical" depends entirely upon how one defines "political." If "political" be taken in the narrow sense, as signifying those means and methods the world regularly accepts as normative for its doing of politics, then the position of me and mine clearly and is that of apoliticism. If, however, "political" be understood in the broad, etymological sense, as identifying whatever actions have public effect upon the life of the "city" (polis), then there are no grounds for accusing either "me" or any of "mine" of advocating apoliticism.
- Vernard Eller, Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers (1987)
- This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
- Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell address, January 17, 1961; Final TV Talk 1/17/61 (1), Box 38, Speech Series, Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President, 1953–61, Eisenhower Library; National Archives and Records Administration.
- I say that politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. Political institutions are secular by definition and operate in independent spheres. All my predecessors have said the same thing, for many years at least, albeit with different accents. I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.
- Pope Francis, interviewed in "How the Church will change" by Eugenio Scalfari in La Repubblica (1 October 2013), as translated from Italian to English by Kathryn Wallace
- … that is the nature of politics: poly, meaning more than one, and ticks, meaning blood-sucking parasites.
- Kinky Friedman, attributed by him to "some guy in Corpus"
- Quoted in Taylor, Michael Ray (October 11, 2007). "Poly-Ticks as Unusual". Nashville Scene. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
- Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands.
- William Lloyd Garrison, "Declaration of Sentiments, Adopted by the Peace Convention, Held in Boston, September 18, 19 and 20, 1838", in Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison (Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1852), p. 72 (Google Books e-text), originally published in The Liberator (September 28, 1838), p. 154.
- There's no real power in Politics. Every day, it's all about whose turn it is to get punched in the face.
- Ricky Dene Gervais, in "Dead Funny", an Interview with Graham Wray in Event, a Mail on Sunday weekend magazine, 06.04.2014, P. 15.
- If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
- Commonly attributed to Emma Goldman, apparently this is a paraphrase of ideas she expressed in Living My Life, (1931), p. 56.
- They [governments] talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the fools and the suckers.
- Graham Greene, The Third Man.
- I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!"
- Bill Hicks, Rant in E-Minor (released posthumously, 1997).
- Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
- Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (1990), Chatto Counterblasts
- That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
- Thomas Huxley in "Universities, Actual & Ideal".
- No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (1776).
- I will have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach to politics. I part company with the Congress and Gandhi. I do not believe in working up mob hysteria. Politics is a gentleman's game.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah speaking to journalist Durga Das in London (December 1920) as quoted in Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity : The Search for Saladin (1997) by Akbar S. Ahmed, p. 67
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775, in conversation with a numerous company.
- Firsthand report by James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson Vol. 2, (1791). [1]
- Politics is momentum.
- Gary Johnson, in an interview with CNBC´s John Harwood [2] (August 22, 2016)
- Uatu the Watcher: Despite the intentions of human politics, history has shown that it is often the one, not the many, who have led the world towards its destiny...now turn your eyes to Earth once more and tell me what you see.
- Earth X, ch. 3, script and story by Jim Krueger, story by Alex Ross
- ... for our English grumbling is equally distributed between the weather and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I, Chapter 18
- Politics: a Trojan horse race.
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec, in Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane] (1957) as translated by Jacek Galazka (1962)
- Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
- Vladimir Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913), p. 5.
- Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor, not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscure and propitious fortune.
- James Madison, Federalist 57 (1788).
- After years of secret slavery the Republican Party and the Democratic Party come out into the open and reveal to themselves and to the nation as nothing but the right wing and the left wing of the same bird of prey. There is not a word in either of their platforms that might not have been written and unanimously endorsed by a convention exclusively of corporation lawyers and Wall Street Bankers. The only difference between these platforms as some one has remarked, is the number of words used to say nothing. Confronted by the gravest crisis in the history of civilization, they have demonstrated, even to their own adherents, that they are without the vision of statesmanship, the courage of leadership or the conviction of patriotism.
- Allen McCurdy, Keynotes for the Third Party National Convention (1920).
- The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights.
- H.L. Mencken, "A Time to be Wary" (1933), collected in A Carnival of Buncombe.
- As far I'm concerned, the two poles of politics were not Left Wing or Right Wing. In fact they're just two ways of ordering an industrial society and we're fast moving beyond the industrial societies of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- As long as I have a pen in my hand and a revolver in my pocket, I fear no one.
- Benito Mussolini, 1914. Quoted in Paolo Monelli, Mussolini:the intimate life of a demagogue, Vanguard Press, 1954.
- Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Part I, Chapter 11, "Vom neuen Götzen" ("The New Idol"). Published in four parts between 1883 and 1891 Another translation: "But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen."
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991).
- What we're sick of — and it's getting even worse — is: You either like Michael Moore or you wanna f**kin' go overseas and shoot Iraqis. We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
- Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Speech at the Capitol Visitor Center, 07.12.2008).[specific citation needed]
- Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it and seeing it, to found one in himself. But whether it exists anywhere or ever exists is no matter; for this is the only commonwealth in whose politics he can ever take part.
- Plato, Republic 592b
- Had previous chroniclers neglected to speak in praise of History in general, it might perhaps have been necessary for me to recommend everyone to choose for study and welcome such treatises as the present, since men have no more ready corrective of conduct than knowledge of the past. But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others. Evidently therefore no one, and least of all myself, would think it his duty at this day to repeat what has been so well and so often said. For the very element of unexpectedness in the events I have chosen as my theme will be sufficient to challenge and incite everyone, young and old alike, to peruse my systematic history. For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans in less than fifty-three years have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government — a thing unique in history? Or who again is there so passionately devoted to other spectacles or studies as to regard anything as of greater moment than the acquisition of this knowledge?
- I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
- J. B. Priestley in Saturn Over the Water (1961) ch. 2.
- La propriété, c'est le vol!
- Translated: Property is theft!
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840), Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution". Alternately translated as "Property is robbery!"
- All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind.
- Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, C. Moncrieff, trans. (1982), p. 495
- Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
- Henri Queuille, The Bureaucrat (1985).
- Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
- Jamie Raskin, 2006-03-01
- Raskin was responding to state senator Nancy Jacobs at a hearing on a proposed Maryland constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage [5]. At the time, Raskin was himself a candidate for senate.
- The politics of the unpolitical—these are the politics of those who desire to be pure in heart: the politics of men without personal ambition; of those who have not desires wealth or an unequal share of worldly possessions; of those who have always striven, whatever their race or condition, for human values and not for national or sectional interests.
- For our Western world, Christ is the supreme example of this unselfish devotion to the good of humanity, and the Sermon on the Mount is the source of all the politics of the unpolitical.
- Herbert Read, "The Politics of the Unpolitical," To Hell with Culture (1963), p. 38
- I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
- Quoted in Colton, Joel; Caroline Farrar Ware (1972). The Twentieth Century. Nineteenth Century and After. pp. page 9. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
- A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in pistols. I myself have fished and hunted a great deal. I have a deep interest in outdoor sports and the various associations which foster them, but it is common knowledge, of course, that fishermen never use a pistol and hunters practically never use a pistol... [even for] theoretical self-protection, the value of a revolver is very problematical.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1931, opposing the Hanley-Fake firearms bill which would have increased access to hanguns. Quoted in Gun Violence in America:The Struggle for Control, Alexander DeConde, 2003 (p.132).
- In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
- Carl Sagan (1987) Keynote address at CSICOP conference, as quoted in Do Science and the Bible Conflict? (2003) by Judson Poling, p. 30.
- Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.
- L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 246
- Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person's political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
- L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 301.
- Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- George Bernard Shaw, reported in Norman Thomas et al., eds., The World Tomorrow (1934), p. 401.
- Right wing (definition): As with the left wing, half the propulsive force of a flightless bird.
- Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy (1985).
- The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Throned above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.[page needed]
- Take the so-called politics of fear — the constant reference to risks, from hoodies on the street corner to international terrorism. Whatever the truth of these risks and the best ways of dealing with them, the politics of fear plays on an assumption that people cannot bear the uncertainties associated with them. Politics then becomes a question of who can better deliver an illusion of control.
- Ex-vicar Mark Vernon; quoted in "God. Who knows?". BBC News. 4 December 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
- The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
- George Washington, Farewell Address (1796).
- Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
- Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows (1983).
- I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
- Colin Wilson in Postscript to the Outsider , p. 2 (1967)
- Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
- W. D. Whitney, Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (1868), p. 150.
- To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
- Garry Wills, "To Keep and Bear Arms", The New York Review of Books", September 21, 1995.
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman, I want no country.
- Virginia Woolf (1966) [1938]. Three Guineas. New York: Harcourt, Brace. p. 80. ISBN 0-156-90177-3.
- Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Zedong, "On Protracted War" (May 1938)
- Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Zedong, "The Little Red Book".
Bipartisanship, patriotism, and unity[edit]
- Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
- Lord Acton in 'Nationality', in The Home and Foreign Review (July 1862).
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775, in conversation with a numerous company.
- Firsthand report by James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson Vol. 2, (1791). [6]
- Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- George Bernard Shaw, reported in Norman Thomas et al., eds., The World Tomorrow (1934), p. 401.
- Right wing (definition): As with the left wing, half the propulsive force of a flightless bird.
- Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy (1985).
- The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
- George Washington, Farewell Address (1796).
- Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
- Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows (1983).
- An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Attributed to Simon Cameron by Allen Johnson, Chronicles of America Series, Yale University Press, 1918. (Cameron was forced to resign as United States Secretary of War in 1862, due to allegations of corruption).
- Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.
- L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 246
- All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 1887. Reprinted in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, 1949, Boston:The Beacon Press, p. 364.
- In Switzerland, 500 years of democracy and peace. And what does it produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Graham Greene, The Third Man.
- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Gore Vidal, "Gods and Greens" (1989), in A View from the Diner's Club (1991).
- Because democracy is not a spectator sport. ~ US presidential election slogan, Democrats (2004).
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949).
- The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.
- Alex Carey, Taking the Risk out of Democracy, 1997, University of Illinois Press, ch. 2 p. 18.
- The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. ~ Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News (28 July 1941).
- Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons: The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. 206–07.
- a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike.
- Plato, describing democracy, Republic 558c
Dictatorships, totalitarianism, and tyranny[edit]
- Politics is a form of evil. The greatest mistake of my life.
- Spanish: La política es una forma de la maldad. El mayor error que he cometido en mi vida.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. ~ CNN.com, (December 18, 2000) George Bush
- Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill, letter with unspecified recipient (November 11, 1937), reported in Winston Churchill, Step by Step: 1936-1939 (1939), p. 159.
- The craziest of all political systems, the unique dictatorship, found its earned end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English and Russians was a necessary occurrence to disrupt the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.
- Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition, diary entry for May 1, 1945.
- I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.
- Russian: Я считаю, что совершенно неважно, кто и как будет в партии голосовать; но вот что чрезвычайно важно, это - кто и как будет считать голоса.
- Joseph Stalin, 1923, as quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (Борис Бажанов. Воспоминания бывшего секретаря Сталина). (Text online in Russian).
- Common paraphrase: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything".
- Wherever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- President Harry S Truman, lecture at Columbia University (April 28, 1959).[specific citation needed]
- Communism was a great system for making people equally poor. In fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. -The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman.
- "Many of our moral and political policies are designed to preempt what we know to be the worst features of human nature. The checks and balances in a democracy, for instance, were invented in explicit recognition of the fact that human leaders will always be tempted to arrogate power to themselves. Likewise, our sensitivity to racism comes from an awareness that groups of humans, left to their own devices, are apt to discriminate and oppress other groups, often in ugly ways. History also tells us that a desire to enforce dogma and suppress heretics is a recurring human weakness, one that has led to recurring waves of gruesome oppression and violence. A recognition that there is a bit of Torquemada in everyone should make us wary of any attempt to enforce a consensus or demonize those who challenge it." ~ What is Your Dangerous Idea? (2007) ed., John Brockman, "Introduction," Steven Pinker, p. xxxi.
- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, 1944.
- Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
- Discworld politics explained (Terry Pratchett, Mort).
Equality, freedom, liberty, and rights[edit]
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (1955), Ch. 10, p. 148.
- As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
- Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu (1908), p. 20.
- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote.
- Author unknown; reported in William F. Shughart, Robert D. Tollison, Policy Challenges and Political Responses (2005), p. 130 (noting that the quote is frequently attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but is anachronistic in that it contains the phrase "to have for lunch", a usage which does not appear until the 1840s).
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton, "Freedom in Antiquity", in The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays (1907), p. 22.
- To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reported in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches (1981), p. 249.
- Self government is preferable to good government.
- Author unknown; variously reported as an old maxim or slogan, as reported in East Africa and Rhodesia (1960), p. 1087, and Douglas Jay, Socialism in the New Society (1962), p. 104; and attributed to authors such as Campbell Bannerman, reported in William White, Notes and Queries (1942), p. 138; Alfred Milner, reported in Vernon McKenzie, Here Lies Goebbels! (1940), p. 184.
Politics, laws of politics[edit]
- Political technology determines political success.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- Sound doctrine is sound politics.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.
- Morton C. Blackwell in Laws of Politics.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valéry, Tel Quel (1943).
- A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.
- Harry Truman, reported in Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (1974), p. 422.
- Political systems are self-destructive constructs. They possess a de-evolutionary or cannibalizing nature, locked firmly within closed-ended structures, micromanaged from top tiers, and endowed with an overwhelming capacity to crank out external controls in assembly-line fashion. With clockwork precision, these systems manufacture rules and a legal apparatus which in turn erect artificial barriers to prevent the optimizing processes of evolution and information fluidity.
- L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 11
- We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
- Samuel Gompers, "Men of Labor! Be Up and Doing" (editorial), American Federationist (May 1906).
- The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, chapter 13 (1835–1840).
- Politics is about being able to do things that your colleagues couldn't do, and for them to recognize that. What marks out successful leaders from the unsuccessful is their decisiveness, courage and clarity - a strategic vision.
- David Miliband, The World Wars (2014).
- All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- Dr. John Arbuthnot as quoted in Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922).
- Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The Duenna, Act ii, scene 4.
- A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe, In Our Time, "Entr'actes and Canapes",1980.
- Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.
- Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues, 1965.
- Finality is not the language of politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons, 28 February 1859.
- I have no faith in political arithmetic.
- Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations.
- Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment.
- Antonin Scalia, Republican Party v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002) (majority opinion).
- Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
- Often quoted by Arthur C. Clarke as one of his favorite remarks of Jawaharlal Nehru, though some of his earliest citations of it, in Voices from the Sky : Previews of the Coming Space Age (1967), p. 154 indicate that Nehru may himself been either quoting or paraphrasing a statement of Vinoba Bhave.
- Politics is not an exact science.
- Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft.
- Otto von Bismarck, speech to Prussian upper house (18 December 1863)
- Variant: Die Politik ist keine Wissenschaft, wie viele der Herren Professoren sich einbilden, sondern eine Kunst.
- Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
- Expression in the Reichstag (1884), as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes.
- Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen.
- Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto von Bismarck, remark to Meyer von Waldeck, 11 August 1867. Quoted in Heinz Amelung, Bismarck-Worte, 1918; as reported in The Yale Book of Quotations, Yale University Press, 2006. This is widely attributed to Bismarck but there is no firsthand account of his exact words, as discussed in Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier, Macmillan, 2006.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, letter to John F. Kennedy, 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal (1969).
- Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but States, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Life Without Principle", The Atlantic Monthly 12 71, October 1863: pp. 484–495.
- Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907: ch. 22.
- There is only one thing more useful in politics than having the right friends, and that is having the right enemies.
- All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics 1932.
- All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
- John Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (Thames and Hudson, 1977), p. 151.
Public safety, domestic security, and gun control[edit]
- A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in pistols. I myself have fished and hunted a great deal. I have a deep interest in outdoor sports and the various associations which foster them, but it is common knowledge, of course, that fishermen never use a pistol and hunters practically never use a pistol... [even for] theoretical self-protection, the value of a revolver is very problematical.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1931, opposing the Hanley-Fake firearms bill which would have increased access to hanguns. Quoted in Gun Violence in America:The Struggle for Control, Alexander DeConde, 2003 (p.132).
- By... our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing; by allowing all of these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., November 1963. Quoted in I have a Dream: the Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lenwood G. Davis, 1973. (p.266).
- No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (1776).
- Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.
- Michael Bloomberg, "The Changing Gun Debate", Newsweek April 30, 2007.
- [The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
- Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
- Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
- The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
- Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790.
- To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
- Garry Wills, "To Keep and Bear Arms", The New York Review of Books", September 21, 1995.
Religion, separation of church and state[edit]
- Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
- Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (1990), Chatto Counterblasts
- Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
- Jamie Raskin, 2006-03-01
- Raskin was responding to state senator Nancy Jacobs at a hearing on a proposed Maryland constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage [7]. At the time, Raskin was himself a candidate for senate.
- The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
- Alvin R. Dyer in Ensign (November 1968)
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 610-13.
- All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- Attributed to John Arbuthnot in Life of Emerson', p. 165.
- Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.
- Isaac H. Bromley, editorial in the New York Tribune (February 16, 1877).
- It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, speech in the House of Commons (November 1830).
- We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.
- Samuel D. Burchard, one of the Deputation visiting James G. Blaine during the 1884 presidential election (October 29, 1884).
- You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Volume III, p. 277.
- Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
- Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent. Phrase used in letter by Earl of Shelburne (July 11, 1765), before Burke's use of it.
- Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
- John C. Calhoun, speech delivered in the House of Representatives (1812).
- Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"—the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
- George Canning, speech against the Addington Ministry (1801).
- The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
- Quoted by Randolph Churchill.
- One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.
- Randolph Churchill, speech, Mansion House, London (Nov. 10, 1879).
- Here the two great interests IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688) Divi Britannici, p. 849. (1675).
- Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
- It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory.
- Grover Cleveland, Annual Message (1887).
- Party honesty is party expediency.
- Grover Cleveland, interview in New York Commercial Advertiser (Sept. 19, 1889).
- Laissez faire, laissez passer.
Let it alone. Let it pass by.
- Colbert, according to Lord John Russell. See report of his speech in the London Times, April 2, 1840. Attributed to Gournay, Minister of Commerce, at Paris, 1751. Also to Quesnay. Quoted by Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations.
- Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
- Benjamin Disraeli, On Import Duties (April 25, 1843).
- The Right Honorable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.
- Benjamin Disraeli, House of Commons (Feb. 28, 1845).
- Party is organized opinion.
- Benjamin Disraeli, speech at Oxford (Nov. 25, 1864).
- Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil (1845), Book II, Chapter II.
- Information upon points of practical politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Gray, Chapter XIV. Given by Walsh as first appearance of the phrase "practical politics".
- All the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
- Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke, Book II, Chapter V.
- Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering,
Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
- John Dryden, Duke of Guise, Epilogue. Phrase used by Dr. Smith. Ballet, Chapter IX. In Musarum Deliciæ.
- What is a Communist? One who has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings.
- Ebenezer Elliot, Epigrams.
- All political power is a trust.
- Charles James Fox (1788).
- Oh! we'll give 'em Jessie
When we rally round the polls.
- Popular song of Fremont's Supporters in the Presidential Campaign of 1856.
- I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- W. S. Gilbert, H. M. S. Pinafore.
- Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
- Oliver Goldsmith, Good-Natured Man, Act II.
- Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
- Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (1774), line 31.
- Who will burden himself with your liturgical parterre when the burning questions [brennende Fragen] of the day invite to very different toils?
- Hagenbach, Grundlinien der Liturgik und Homiletik (1803). "Burning question" used by Edward Miall, M.P., also by Disraeli in the House of Commons (March, 1873).
- He serves his party best who serves the country best.
- Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address (March 5, 1877).
- The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Poetry, A Metrical Essay, line 83.
- Non ego ventosæ plebis suffragia venor.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
- Horace, Epistles I. 19. 37.
- Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Plumed Knight," speech in nomination of James G. Blaine for President, 1876 Republican National Convention at Cincinnati (June 15, 1876).
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Tench Coxe (1799).
- If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
- Usually quoted, "Few die and none resign." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven (July 12, 1801).
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven (July 12, 1801). Paraphrased as "Put the right man in the right place" by John Bach McMaster, History of the People of the United States Volume II, p. 586.
- We are swinging round the circle.
- Andrew Johnson, of the Presidential Reconstruction (August 1866).
- I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
- Samuel Johnson (1778), from James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Skilled to pull wires he baffles nature's hope, who sure intended him to stretch a rope.
- James Russell Lowell, The Boss (referring to "Boss Tweed").
- Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, on Mitford's History of Greece.
- Factions among yourselves; preferring such
To offices and honors, as ne'er read
The elements of saving policy;
But deeply skilled in all the principles
That usher to destruction.
- Philip Massinger, The Bondman, Act I, scene 3, line 210.
- Agitate, agitate, agitate.
- Lord Melbourne. In Torrens, Life of Lord Melbourne, Volume I, p. 320, and in Walpole's History of England from Conclusion of the Great War, Volume III, p. 143.
- Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
- Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Rousseau, p. 380.
- Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.
- But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
- Napoleon I of France, on his return from Elba, speech to the Legislative Assembly.
- Better a hundred times an honest and capable administration of an erroneous policy than a corrupt and incapable administration of a good one.
- E. J. Phelps, at a dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce (Nov. 19, 1889).
- The White Plume of Navarre.
- Name given to New York Tribune during the Civil War. See Wendell Phillips, Under the Flag (Boston, April 21, 1861).
- A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force, nor doors nor locks
Can shield you; 'tis the ballot-box.
- John Pierpont, A Word from a Petitioner.
- A weapon that comes down as still
- Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope, letter to Blount (Aug. 27, 1714).
- Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
And totter on in business to the last.
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle I, line 228.
- Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope in Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, written by Swift and Pope. Evidence in favor of Pope.
- A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
- Horace Porter, A Bon-Mot in Cleveland Blaine Campaign, (1884).
- Abstain from beans.
- Pythagoras. Advice against political voting, which was done by means of beans. See Lucian Gallus, IV. 5. Vitarum Auctio. Sect. 6. The superstition against beans was prevalent in Egypt however. See Herodotus, II. 37, also Sextus Empiricus. Explanations to abstain from beans from lost treatise of Aristotle in Diog. Laertes, VIII. 34. Beans had an oligarchical character on account of their use in voting. Plutarch gives a similar explanation in De Educat, Chapter XVII. Caution against entering public life, for the votes by which magistrates were elected were originally given by beans. Pythagoras referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Holy Living. Section IV, p. 80.
- I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.
- Stephen Rice, quoted by Macaulay, History of England, Chapter XII. Familiarly known as "Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament".
- There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt, address at Minnesota State Fair (September 2, 1901).
- The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , speech at Chesterfield (December 16, 1901).
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene 4, line 90.
- Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, scene 6, line 174.
- O, that estates, degrees, and offices
Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
- William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene 9, line 41.
- Persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
- William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, scene 1, line 1.
- When I first came into Parliament, Mr. Tierney, a great Whig authority, used always to say that the duty of an Opposition was very simple—it was to oppose everything and propose nothing.
- Lord Stanley, debate (June 4, 1841). See Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.
- Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Adventures of Philip.
- As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? Say.
- William M. Tweed, on the Ballot (1871).
- Defence, not defiance.
- Motto adopted by the "Volunteers," when there was fear of an invasion of England by Napoleon (1859).
- The king [Frederick] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.
- Voltaire, reply to General Manstein, CXI.
- The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
- Ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole by Willaim Hazlitt, Wit and Humour. Same in La Rochefoucauld, Maxims.
- I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
- Artemus Ward, Fourth of July Oration.
- Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
- Woodrow Wilson, speech to the Pan-American Scientific Congress at Washington (January 6, 1916).
- Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
- Political slogan, attributed to Orson E. Woodbury. (1840).
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)[edit]
- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 196-198.
- There may be cases in which there is so much of difficulty in knowing where the law stands that we take time to consider, and sometimes doubt much and sometimes differ among ourselves. But I believe every one of the Judges acts upon the principle that he is before man and God in the discharge of his duty, and acts upon his solemn oath, and declares tbe law not according to any political fancy, or for [the purposes of serving one party or serving another, but according to the pure conviction of his own mind without looking to any party.
- Bayley, J., Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 899.
- I am in too high a situation to fear any man or class of men. I thank God I am in a position which puts me above politics.
- Earl of Clonwell, Case of Glennan and others (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 459.
- Political arguments, in the fullest sense of the word, as they concern the government of a nation, must be, and always have been, of great weight in the consideration of the Court.
- Lord Hardwicke, The Earl of Chesterfield v. Janssen (1750), 1 Atk. 352; id. 2 Ves. Sen. 153.
- One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.
- Hawkins, J., Ex parte Castioni (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Mag. Cas. 33.
- It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that parties should exist to a certain degree, because they keep ministers on their guard in their conduct), they will have their friends and adherents. A great political character, who held a high situation in this country some years ago, but who is now dead, used to say that ministers were the better for being now and then a little peppered and salted. And while these parties exist, they will have their friendships and attainments, which will sometimes dispose them to wander from argument to declamation.
- Lord Kenyon, Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.
- The learned counsel has very properly avoided all political discussions unconnected with the subject, and I shall follow his example. Courts of justice have nothing to do with them.
- Lord Kenyon, L.C.J., Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.
- Men argue differently, from natural phenomena and political appearances: they have different capacities, different degrees of knowledge, and different intelligence. But the means of information and judging are open to both: each professes to act from his own skill and sagacity; and, therefore, neither needs to communicate to the other.
- Lord Mansfield, Carter v. Boehm (1765), 3 Burr. 1905.
- The Constitution does not allow reasons of State to influence our judgments: God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences, how formidable soever they might be: if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, "Fiat justitia mat caelum." The Constitution trusts the King with reasons of State and policy; he may stop prosecutions,1 he may pardon offences2; it is his, to judgewhetherthelaworthecriminalshould yield. We have no election.
- Lord Mansfield, Case of John Wilkes (1770), 19 How. St. Tr. 1112.
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)[edit]
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels, chapter 24, p. 373 (1973). Originally published in 1906.
- People who think the mighty in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted, if you will, by anything less than votes just don't understand what it's all about and never will. They don't know what Washington juice is made of.
- George E. Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me, chapter 16, p. 219 (1950). Allen was a longtime personal aide to President Harry Truman and was director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1946–1947.
- The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
- John B. Anderson, remarks at GOP Presidential Forum, Des Moines, Iowa, January 5, 1980, as reported by the Des Moines Sunday Register, January 6, 1980, p. 4A.
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, p. 270 (1948). Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book.
- Politics is not an exact science.
- (Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft.)
- Otto von Bismarck, Prussian Chamber, December 18, 1863.—The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 84 (1979).
- Politics is the art of the possible.
- (Die Politik ist die Lehre von Moglichen.)
- Otto von Bismarck, conversation with Meyer von Waldeck, August 11, 1867.—The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 84 (1979).
- All political power is primarily an illusion…. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.
- Jimmy Breslin, How the Good Guys Finally Won, Notes from an Impeachment Summer, p. 33–34 (1975). The phrase is usually quoted as "blue smoke and mirrors".
- A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
- James Bryce; in Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 66 (1930). This remark was made during a conversation with Wister in London in 1921.
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
- Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790", The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 246 (1899).
- Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.
- Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (vol. 1 of The Second World War), p. 666–67 (1948). However, he was prime minister again, 1951–1955.
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1954. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, p. 219.
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken, "Women as Outlaws", A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 29 (1949). This essay was first published in The Smart Set, December 1921.
- The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr. This statement is attributed to him in his obituary in The New York Times, June 2, 1971, p. 45. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
- They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.
- Attributed to Plutarch in The Great Quotations, ed. George Seldes, p. 570 (1966). Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901.—Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, p. 112 (1954).
- Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.
- Elihu Root, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", Men and Policies, Addresses by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75 (1924).
- Who put up that cage?
Who hung it up with bars, doors?
Why do those on the inside want to get out?
Why do those outside want to get in?
What is this crying inside and out all the time?
What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
- Carl Sandburg, "Money, Politics, Love and Glory", The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. and expanded ed., p. 394 (1970).
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Yoshida-Torajiro", Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).
- The political activity prevailing in the United States is something one could never understand unless one had seen it. No sooner do you set foot on American soil than you find yourself in a sort of tumult; a confused clamor rises on every side, and a thousand voices are heard at once, each expressing some social requirements. All around you everything is on the move: here the people of a district are assembled to discuss the possibility of building a church; there they are busy choosing a representative; further on, the delegates of a district are hurrying to town to consult about some local improvements; elsewhere it's the village farmers who have left their furrows to discuss the plan for a road or a school.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 6, p. 242 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840.
- There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 8, p. 270 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840.
- Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
- Harry S. Truman.—William Hillman, Mr. President: The First Publication from the Personal Diaries, Private Letters, Papers and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman, p. 198 (1952).
- Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
- Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 15th week, p. 131 (1871).
- Until you've been in politics
you've never really been alive
it's rough and sometimes it's
dirty and it's always hard
work and tedious details
But, it's the only sport for grownups—all other
games are for kids.
- Author unknown. Framed saying on the mantel of Senator John C. Culver's private office, 1978. Elizabeth Drew, "A Reporter at Large (Senator John C. Culver—part I)", The New Yorker, September 11, 1978, p. 60. Disclaimed by Robert A. Heinlein, noted science-fiction author.
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- Censorship
- Democratic Party
- Diplomacy
- Education
- Freedom of speech
- Republican Party
- United States Congress


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Music Conductor John Nelson '63, DMUS'89, talks about the spiritual impact of Bach's Holy Week passion selections on listeners.
Professor Alan Jacobs is one of several contributors to a section of The Atlantic commemorating 50 years of human spaceflight.
April 9, 2011
Professor Timothy Larsen writes a commentary on the absence of the evangelical voice on National Public Radio programs.
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Russia's decision to impose a one-year ban on food imports from Canada and a host of other countries will be a blow to Manitoba pork producers and processors, an industry official said today.
Manitoba Pork Council chairman Karl Kynoch said Russia is Canada's fourth largest export market, with sales on track to hit the $500 million this year.
"It was looking like a pretty good year for pork going into Russia, so this is definitely a concern," Kynoch said, adding that any time an industry loses one of its top export markets, it's bound to hurt.
Although he didn't have any data on how much pork Manitoba exports annually to Russia, Kynoch noted Manitoba exports about 85 per cent of the pork products it produces each year, compared to 50 per cent for Canada.
"So export markets are very important to us in Manitoba."
According to Industry Canada, Manitoba exported $61.8 million worth of pork to Russia in 2013. Exports have also jumped significantly in recent years, up from only $34.6 million in 2012 and $9.7 million in 2011.
On the positive side, Kynoch said Canada exports pork to more than 80 countries, so hopefully pork processors can find other markets to take the pork that otherwise would have gone to Russia.
But that's going to take time, he added.
Russia announced the ban on food imports from Canada, the United States, the European Union, Australia and Norway in retaliation for trade sanctions imposed on it for its annexation of the Crimea region.
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You can, however, see him in the flesh tonight, as a panelist for The International Movie Betting Game at 7pm in the Schubas Upstairs Lounge. I talked to Cullen over email this week about his background and the several projects currently occupying his time.
The Steamroller: Where'd you grow up and when did you move to Chicago?
Cullen Crawford: Ok. First of all, thank you for asking me questions for a website. The idea that anybody cares anything about me saying something is pretty much proof that God is dead.
I grew up outside of New Orleans, then Virginia, and then Raleigh. After college at Appalachian State in the mountains of NC, I moved here. The South has this weird thing of being the worst and also the best. I couldn't really appreciate it until I moved away. I'm probably never going back, but I like it now.
TS: Were you always in to comedy/writing or is that something you came into later on?
CC: I wanted to be a little hard-assed Ernest Hemingway clone in college because college is when you do that. I majored in creative writing and had to take a playwriting class and then basically just wrote plays that were series of ridiculous sketches because I didn't want to be there. I think there was one where the conceit was that the play was being put on by a Baptist church to scare children away from sin and was about a haunted abortion clinic and some kid getting AIDS from masturbating or something. Anyway after it was performed my professor was like "you should get into writing comedy." I think he wanted me nowhere near his beloved theater. So I did.
TS: I've heard you have an Achewood tattoo. That's awesome. Can you tell me the story behind that?
CC: Alright, so I'm not really a comics or webcomics guy. At all. But Achewood is just on this whole different level. It's probably the most consistently funny thing I've ever come across. It's a webcomic about cats (I know), but it is so much better than that sounds. I mean, come on. It is equal parts Louis CK, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mr. Show. It is really hard to get into but everyone who likes funny things should read it. So I got a huge arm tattoo of it cause I was 22 and loved it so much. Tattoos are how 22 year-olds love things.
TS: You work in the humor department at Groupon, correct? What's a normal day like for you there?
CC: It used to be that myself and my actually funny coworkers (Daniel Kibblesmith, Megan Green, Wes Haney, and Ben Kobold) would write the Groupon Says sections all day (here's an example) . But while we still write those, our job has gotten much crazier.
Basically whatever they want to have a humorous bent comes through us. Anything from creating a cartoon to make fun of marketing to children/market to children to inventing a fake murder-based board game that somehow relates to buying homewares.
TS: You also recently started working for the Onion News Network. Were you a fan of The Onion going in?
CC: I've loved The Onion ever since I was an angry sad teenager. The Onion is so consistently good it is mind boggling. They always have the joke for whatever is going on and they never rely on easy laughs unlike pretty much every other comedic institution. So getting to be a part of that has seriously been amazing. I was just on set for a video I conceived and co-wrote for them and it was probably the best day of my life.
TS: Do you think your sensibilities match well with theirs or is it a different headspace you have to occupy when generating material for them?
CC: I love how mean and dark they are. I kind of naturally gravitated to that stuff being raised Catholic and full of self hatred. The only thing I have to change is to pretend to be smart and well-informed enough to hang with those guys.
TS: You're involved in the comedy scene here, and have mentioned that performing live is a sort of "necessary evil" for now, and I think that's an interesting point. There's not much in the way of a "local scene" for folks that are especially good at writing comedy stuff, is there? Do you think there's space on a local level for folks that just do comedy writing or is it such an ethereal thing that live performance has to be a part of it as a way of distinguishing oneself?
CC: I'm probably going to ramble about this. When I first got to Chicago and was exploring the "scene" (for lack of less horrible word), I was surprised by two things: The number of truly talented people toiling in obscurity and the widely lauded bullshit comedy that involves a wig and a funny voice and a reference to the 90's.
Joining up with the Late Live Show was such a revelation. That writers' room is such a sharp group it's insane. And it's through that lens, writing and rewriting stuff for that show, that a lot of the performer-y stuff of like "what if a spicy Latina TSA employee strip-searched Rahm Emmanuel" rings hollow and lazy. I have nothing against performing; a good performer can make or break a sketch. But everyone seems so fixated on being up onstage that most of them don't seem to care about the grunt work of figuring out what's actually funny.
I don't know. All of this is probably just coming from the fact that I'm a terrible performer. That's why I love Twitter. It's essentially the closest thing to writers' community there is. Every day it's this giant contest of trying to make strangers laugh using like 2 sentences.
TS: You're also working on a serialized Sherlock Holmes novel. How'd that come to be?
CC: So my friend Tom McHenry has started a real, physical newspaper called The Proof and wanted content for it. I love Sherlock Holmes like all hell. He's the British superhero the way Superman is the American superhero. Instead of being a big strong handsome idiot who throws cars at his problems, Sherlock Holmes is smart and weird and gets to be a dick to people in a society where being polite is the most important thing.
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After getting hit with multiple injuries in preseason camp, the Florida Gators are regaining their health. They will be close to full strength for Saturday's game at Miami, UF coach Will Muschamp said Wednesday.
"Since the start of camp, this is probably as healthy as we've been," Muschamp said.
Muschamp said defensive tackle Dominique Easley (flu) returned to practice Tuesday and that offensive tackle D.J. Humphries (sprained knee) was returning to practice Wednesday. The only starter out for Saturday's game is offensive guard Jon Halapio (partially torn pectoral), who is scheduled to return for the Sept. 21 Tennessee game.
"We should be good to go heading into Saturday's game," Muschamp said. "Jon Halapio will be the only one who is a starter who will not play Saturday."
Humphries sprained his knee in the opener last Saturday and did not practice Monday or Tuesday. Easley missed Monday's practice with the flu.
Three players are out for the season. Wide receiver Andre Debose and linebacker Matt Rolin recently underwent ACL surgery, while starting right tackle Chaz Green recently underwent shoulder surgery.
"We're disappointed we're missing those guys right now, but we're pretty healthy going (into Saturday's game) ," Muschamp said.
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Recognize Residents and Staff
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, July 11, beginning at 9:30 a.m., will recognize the following residents and staff for their accomplishments. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
Outstanding School Safety
Hana Kang selected
Hana Kang of Fairfax will be recognized for receiving a 2004-2005 Outstanding Safety Patrol of the Year award from the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for Safety and Education. Selection criteria for the distinction is based on leadership, dependability, academics, promptness, neatness and industriousness. Kang, a sixth-grader at Fairhill Elementary School, Fairfax, was selected for the honor from among the 11,000 school safety patrols in Fairfax County.
Keeping Things Green
Recognition of Earth Day/Arbor Day sponsors and committee
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the sponsors and members of the Earth Day/Arbor Day 2005 Committee for their support of the event. Sponsors of the event include: Northern Virginia Community College-Annandale Campus, Barbara Saperstone, provost; Fairfax County Solid Waste Management Program-Recycling, Jeff Smithberger; and Clean Fairfax Council, Rosemary Byrne, executive director. Members of the committee include: Julia Brown, Rosemary Byrne, Nancy Chamberlain, John Dudzinsky, Meredith Eisenberg, Cheryl Fairhurst, Robin Gorham, Pamela Gratton, Ted McGill, Mike McMahon, Rose Purple, Cheryl Robinette and Charles Sakowicz.
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July 13, 2006—
Michigan Tech is one of two universities in the nation to receive a 2006 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Award. The awards recognize innovative campus retention programs that have encouraged students to succeed and persevere through graduation.
"Each year these awards recognize the most successful, state-of-the-art retention programs in use today," said Tim Culver, associate vice president for Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm. "This year's honorees have made great strides in student retention, and we are pleased to recognize them for these efforts. Both winners demonstrated measurable institutional outcomes, originality and creativity, as well as excellent use of resources and adaptability for use at other institutions."
Michigan Tech and the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, will be formally recognized at this year's National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention, taking place July 19-21 in Denver.
Through the King-Chávez-Parks Initiative, the university's Educational Opportunity department and the College of Engineering sponsor Excelling in Science and Engineering Learning, or ExSEL. The program aims to increase the success and retention of minority and disadvantaged first-year students enrolled in the College of Engineering. ExSEL's strategy combines coursework, peer mentoring, progress mentoring and personalized services and averages 108 participants per year.
ExSEL student retention has increased 16.4 percent since the program's inception, while the average fall semester GPA has increased 30 percent compared to a university-wide increase of .07 percent. Grades in key courses also increased among ExSEL participants. Since the program's inception, 4.1 percent fewer ExSEL students are on academic probation after their first year, and 18 percent fewer ExSEL students were academically dismissed after their first year.
The Retention Excellence Awards ProgramTM was established by Noel-Levitz in 1989 to honor outstanding achievements in student retention by colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. Winners are selected by a national panel comprised of leading campus-based retention practitioners. Case studies of the winning schools are available at noellevitz.com .
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - This holiday season, many shoppers are already plotting their plans for Black Friday. But smaller stores are hoping customers will consider shopping locally instead of at retail chains, especially on Small Business Saturday.
Decked out before December, the storefronts in Avondale are trying to draw the attention of those holiday shoppers.
"I always prefer to shop locally from these local stores," shopper John Abrams said. "Sometimes I find that they just can't compete on price, and I'll go to the big-box stores, but I do prefer to shop locally and support my friends and family who are doing business here."
Many people who stop by are eager to spend at hometown businesses, choosing to avoid the retailers for a more personal experience.
"First of all, I skip Black Friday," shopper Kim Morrison said. "I don't ever go out on Black Friday shopping, and it's important for our local economy for local business owners. These all are people trying to support their families, feed their families."
For local shops, the holiday season has a big impact on their bottomline. It's estimated that last year on
Small Business Saturday, more than 100 million people shopped locally nationwide.
"It's huge, it's huge," small business owner Deb Fewell said. "Fortunately, we have a lot of regular customers who shop throughout the year, but Christmastime we have a whole bunch of new customers that come in and really make it exciting and fun."
Fewell, who owns Cowford Traders, believes her shoppers count on a sense of community, something she thinks her store provides.
"The people that shop here, their children go to school with my children and, you know, are volunteers on the same boards together, and we're very generous on donations to support local causes," Fewell said.
Other stores point out it's tough to compete with nationwide retailers, but many are counting on customers to consider the impact small businesses have on the area economy.
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Cardinals ride huge inning to series victory
SAN FRANCISCO -- When Adam Wainwright dressed for the trip back to St. Louis on Sunday, he did so with a smile on his face.
And why not?
Wainwright's teammates roughed up his counterpart, Giants starter Matt Cain, en route to claiming a 14-3 win to earn the series victory against the reigning champions. Wainwright benefitted from a nine-run outburst in the fourth inning, one that put the game out of reach for San Francisco early.
"That'll work," Wainwright happily said of his offense. "I appreciated it today. I hope I lead the league in run support."
What started as a classic pitchers' duel between Wainwright and Cain ended as a whitewash. Perfect through his first three innings, Cain looked like his usual dominant self in the early stages of the game. Then the fourth frame came around, and so did the St. Louis offense. The Cardinals sent 14 men to the plate in the inning, hanging a nine-spot on Cain before his afternoon was over.
Perhaps it comes as no surprise that Matt Carpenter was in the middle of the action for St. Louis. He entered Sunday's contest with a lifetime 4-for-4 mark against Cain, before adding two more hits against the San Francisco ace. Carpenter's second hit, a bloop single to right field, plated two Cardinals to make it 7-2 and chased Cain from the mound. Carpenter finished the afternoon 3-for-5 with a double, three RBIs and three runs scored.
Ask him for an explanation about his success against Cain, though, and Carpenter won't have an answer.
"I don't really know what to say about it, other than I know he's an outstanding pitcher, one of the best in the game," Carpenter said. "It's crazy the way it's worked out. It's not like I have a secret or anything. Every at-bat I've had against him has been real tough; I just try to battle."
Carpenter hardly acted alone during the big fourth-inning surge. Matt Adams supplied the first big hit of the rally, belting a ground-rule double to the right-field gap to score two teammates and make it 3-2, St. Louis. Ty Wigginton and Pete Kozma followed with back-to-back singles, before Carpenter and Carlos Beltran each added two-run singles to push the margin to 9-2.
Aside from his team's ability to hit with runners in scoring position, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny was pleased with the two-strike approach. Both Carpenter and Beltran's run-scoring hits came with two strikes and two outs.
"If there was a wish for what kind of offense we have, that'd be it," Matheny said, "We just keep fighting and fighting, and we take what they give you and try not to do too much. It was nice."
In a weekend-long celebration of last year's World Series title, the Giants wrapped it up with an extravagant ring presentation ceremony before Sunday's matinee.
"They rained on our parade a little bit," San Francisco skipper Bruce Bochy said after the game.
But Matheny and his players said the celebrations didn't serve as motivation, despite being bounced by the Giants in seven games during last year's National League Championship Series.
"Every game, we're wanting to win as badly as anyone can want to win," Matheny said. "I think what we witnessed here was, one, acknowledging how a team got hot and did the right thing at the right time. And two, we got the motivation that we'd like to get back."
Given Cain's early domination and Wainwright's early struggles, the game initially looked headed for a different outcome. Wainwright gave up a leadoff triple to Angel Pagan to start the bottom of the first, but quickly got out of the jam with two strikeouts and a groundout.
Trouble brewed again in the bottom of the third when Wainright gave up two runs, but the veteran righty kept his cool and finished seven strong innings. In all, Wainwright allowed two runs on seven hits and no walks while striking out six.
"My stuff was great" Wainwright said. "I felt very good going into today, too. My arm is feeling as good as it ever has."
Specifically, Wainwright said he was able to set up his curveball with a good inside fastball and cutter. Once he got ahead in the count, Wainwright didn't hesitate to drop the hammer with his curve.
"I thought this was by far the best curveball we've seen since the start of spring," Matheny said.
For good measure, the offense added two more runs in the eighth and three in the ninth, two of those runs coming via a triple by Jon Jay. With the victory, St. Louis heads back to Busch Stadium with a 3-3 record for Monday's home opener against Cincinnati.
"Had all kinds of celebrations going on, but that was two important wins for our team," Wainwright said. "We go home with some momentum, and to give our Cardinals fans two wins was great to see."
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.