Political Quotes and Speeches

"The great German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck once wisely said there were two things you didn’t want to see being made – sausage and legislation. They’re both messy. Often you have no idea what’s in the end product. And what goes into the process is, well, not for the faint-hearted. Source: Phil Power’s Newspaper Column, May 31, 2007.

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow."--Secretary Ron Brown

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."--Gideon J. Tucker (1866)

"I think I'm a candidate because...I've been consistently vague on all the issues and I'm continuing tomake promises that I'll be unable to full fill." -- Comedian Pat Paulsen Running for President on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"

"Hence, the less government we have, the better, -- the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."--Ronald Reagan (1989 - Farewell Address)

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." Gideon J. Tucker (1866)

"Hence, the less government we have, the better, -- the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eigen's Political & Historical Quotations
http://www.politicalquotes.org/
"Eigen’s Political & Historical Quotations is the world’s largest collection of quotations about and by historians, politicians and other public figures. There are over 34,000 quotations with citations in the collection and the number grows every day. The quotes are organized in a searchable data base and are available to all on the World Wide Web of the Internet. The collection may be searched by author, idea, subject or actual text. For the technically inclined, we enable field searching as well as free text searching."
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Freedom, Government, and Political Quotes Page
http://web.archive.org/web/20021205184538/http://pacific.discover.net/~dansyr/quotes.html
In case you need a quick quote! One sample: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use." [Kierkegaard] Still available thanks to the Internet Archive.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html
Digitized texts of Inauguration Day speeches by American presidents.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

PoliticalInformation.com Collection
http://www.politicalinformation.com/quotes.html
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Respectfully Quoted:
A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service
http://www.bartleby.com/73/
The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate. In fulfilling decades of requests from Members of Congress for citation of quotations, the Library of Congress compiled the most frequently asked questions of the legislature for the edification of every citizen. Suzy Platt, ed.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
A collection of over 2700 quotes courtesy of the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Zingers: Outrageous Statements from Select Public Figures
http://web.archive.org/web/20010802021707/
http://www.mindspring.com/~mparker1/zingers.html
Perhaps not politically correct, but guaranteed for a chuckle or two.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Additional Quotation Sources

Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition, 1919
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Columbia World of Quotations (1996)
http://www.bartleby.com/66/
The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Fagan Finder : Quotations and Proverbs Search
http://www.faganfinder.com/quotes/
The always interesting, creative and useful work of Michael Fagan continues with the release of a new section on his Fagan Finder tool box. Quotations and Proverbs Search allows you to search more than 50 web databases from a single interface. Fagan describes the site this way, "[An] attempt to collect the largest sources of quotations and related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichés, etc.). Many of the websites included here also include things such as full text of speeches, author biographies, and quotes of the day. All search tools and links on this page have longer descriptions, which you can read by holding your mouse over their names."
(Last checked 04/20/07)

The Quotations Page
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Quoteland.com
http://www.quoteland.com/
(Last checked 04/20/07)

QuoteWorld
http://QuoteWorld.org/
You may never again be at a loss for a good quotation or two, thanks to QuoteWorld. It claims a database of more than 13,700 quotations, along with a user-friendly search engine.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Quotez
http://www.dreamshares.com/quotations/
The ultimate source of quotations on the net. Over 13500 quotes indexed by subject and by author.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)
http://www.bartleby.com/63/
With over 9,000 quotations from 4,000 sources organized into 25 categories and 60 sections, this comprehensive reference work contains words of wit and wisdom from such modern notables as Ezra Pound, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and Desmond Tutu.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Speeches

History and Politics Out Loud
http://www.hpol.org/
A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students. A component of Historical Voices funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Michigan State University.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

History.com Video Gallery : Great Speeches
http://www.history.com/media.do?action=listing&sortBy=1&sortOrder=A&topic=GREAT%20SPEECHES
A collection made available by the History Channel.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
A collection of mp3 recordings by American Rhetoric.
(Last checked 04/20/07)

 

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