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Quotes about Party


He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

Samuel Dickinson Burchard

Party honesty is party expediency.

Steven Grover Cleveland

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.

H. L. Mencken

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene Mccarthy

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Wilson Mizner

Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb?

William Shakespeare

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

John Caldwell Calhoun

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

Dorman Bridgman Eaton

The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.

Charles Dickens

Revolution is not a dinner party.

Sun Yat-sen

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Robin Williams

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was: 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.'

George Washington

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Gore Vidal

I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.

William S. Gilbert

Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin (Friends of the party) who begin accusals, Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray, Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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