Politicians

Examples

• For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways. Plato. The Republic.
• How do your lawyers live, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Knots of politicians were assembled with anxious brows and loud or deep voices. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That is true, truer than most politicians would admit in public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Certainly nobody expects our politicians to become philosophers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nor is it a wonder, that politicians should be very industrious in inculcating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It keeps the processes of politics well ventilated and reminds politicians of their excuse for existence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Public interest, education, and the artifices of politicians, have the same effect in both cases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The vote is the tangible thing, and for that these Socialist politicians work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The vile practice of yellow newspapers and chauvinistic politicians is almost the only experience of it we have. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Politicians tend to live in character, and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sonny,' he said, 'if these politicians had their speeches published as they deliver them, a great many shorthand writers would be out of a job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the senators and politicians of Rome saw to it that such things never did exist as clean and wholesome realities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I, for one, am not disposed to blame the politicians and the business men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had been on intimate terms with the leading politicians of several countries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His ideal happens, however, to be the aim of most foreign offices, politicians and princes of finance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They show their real vitality by a relentless growth in spite of all the little fences and obstacles that foolish politicians devise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That sense of an impersonal machine going on with endless reiteration is an experience that imaginative politicians face. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You are the only other person, save only these politicians, who knows the true facts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Certainly the human nature that figures in most political thinking is a wraith that never was--not even in the souls of politicians. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Indian representative was, of course, sure to be merely a British nominee; the other four would be colonial politicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Most politicians living for the day prefer to ignore them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have lived with politicians,--with socialist politicians whose good-will was abundant and intentions constructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You cannot blame politicians if their perceptions are few and their thinking crude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What insight into reality can a man possess who is capable of discussing politics and ignoring politicians? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Does anyone seriously believe that the business leaders, the makers of opinion and the politicians will, on their own initiative, bring social questions to a solution? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Men of this class (Critias) often become politicians--they are the authors of great mischief in states, and sometimes also of great good. Plato. The Republic.
• But the deliberate casuistry of lawyers, quacks, or politicians is not so difficult to deal with. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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