In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.

Mark Twain

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams