<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Politics - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66758]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46947]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46940]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46925]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46925</guid></item></channel></rss>