| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Woollcott | I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. |
| Albert Einstein | All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. |
| Alexis Carrel | The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed - Reflections on Life |
| Alfred E Wiggam | A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time |
| Alice Stone Blackwell | Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. |
| Andrew Johnson | Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. |
| Andy Warhol | I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American. |
| Anonymous | I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. |
| Anonymous | I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. |
| Archibald Cox | Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. |
| Aristide Briand | A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. |
| Arnold Edinborough | Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. |
| Arnold Glasgow | One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. |
| Arnold Toynbee | If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. |
| Arthur C Clarke | I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
| Arthur Koestler | Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. |
| Arthur Koestler | ...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded. |
| Arthur Koestler | War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. |
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