{"id":4742,"date":"2016-10-23T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:48:35","slug":"10-political-quotes-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10-political-quotes-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Political Quotes from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PoliticalOften I must speak other than I think. That is called diplomacy.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Dune Messiah<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Frank Herbert<\/a><\/p>\n

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Vivian Grey<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/p>\n

A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Phineas Redux<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/a><\/p>\n

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Elmer Gantry<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sinclair Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n

“There is no gambling like politics.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Endymion<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/p>\n

“You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Mark Twain<\/a><\/p>\n

A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Phineas Redux<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/a><\/p>\n

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Northanger Abbey<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jane Austen<\/a><\/p>\n

“The world is wearied of statesmen; whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Lothair<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/p>\n

And he gave it for his opinion, “that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Gulliver’s Travels<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jonathan Swift<\/a><\/p>\n

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A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope And nine more quotes about politics…<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[739,385,109,941,726,593,925,530,145,531,384,137,346,873,388,936,871],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","tag-anthony-trollope","tag-benjamin-disraeli","tag-dune-messiah","tag-elmer-gantry","tag-endymion","tag-frank-herbert","tag-gullivers-travels","tag-jane-austen","tag-jonathan-swift","tag-lothair","tag-mark-twain","tag-northanger-abbey","tag-phineas-redux","tag-sinclair-lewis","tag-topic1","tag-vivian-grey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}