Political History Quotes

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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.