Quotations Set 19

1. In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp. - Huey Long

2. I have more influence now than when I had the power. - Gough Whitlam, 5 July 1997

3. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776

4. The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. - Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister, 1964

5. He could not see a belt without hitting below it. - Margot Asquith on David Lloyd George

6. One fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert Kennedy

7. I'm not a crook. - President Richard Nixon

8. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Attlee

9. History teaches us to beware of demagogues who wrap themselves in the flag in an attempt to appeal to the worst aspects of nationalism. - Judge Alistair Nicholson on Pauline Hanson

10. He has not a single redeeming defect. - Benjamin Disraeli on W.E. Gladstone

11. A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. - Benjamin Disraeli

12. John Major, Norman Lamont: I wouldn't spit in their mouths if their teeth were on fire. - Rodney Bickerstaffe (1993)

13. John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him. - Paul Johnson (March 1993)

14. A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. - Edmund Burke

15. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - John Arbuthnot

16. Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you. - Jacob L. Arvey

17. Venal prick. - Sen. Robert Ray on Sen. Mal Colston (Sunday Age, 13 April 1997)

18. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams, cartoonist (1957- )

19. Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. - T.S. Eliot, American-Anglo poet and critic (1888-1965)

20. Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952)

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