Politeness quotes and words of wisdom

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
John Adams


"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
Dr. John Arbuthnot


"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
Thomas Jefferson


"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
Benjamin Disraeli


"He serves his party best who serves the country best."
Rutherford B. Hayes


"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?"
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle


"I always voted at my party"s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."
William Schwenck Gilbert


"I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.""
Daniel Webster


"If you bow at all, bow low."
Proverb


"It makes no difference who you vote for ? the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people."
Gore Vidal


"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."
Edwin Land


"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Arthur Schopenhauer


"POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don?t seem to see this."
Doris Lessing


"Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy


"The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy."
Nick Nuessle


"The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions."
Sydney J. Harris


"The more you observe politics, the more you"ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
Will Rogers


"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it"s easy."
Unknown


"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 Dickenson Burchard


Interesting Quotes

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jager