Political Quotations A Worldwide Dictionary of Thoughts and Pronouncements from Politicians, Literary Figures, Humorists and Others

From the humor of Will Rogers ("Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion") to the philosophy of Aristotle ("He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander"), and from the Machiavellian logic of Leon Trotsky ("In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time") to the folksy wisdom of Harry S Truman ("A statesman is a politician who has been dead 10 to 15 years"), this reference work provides over 3,000 quotations from a broad range of sources on the world of politics. Categorically arranged from "adages and maxims" to "women in politics, " the entries include the author of the quote, the source and the year. Author and keyword-in-context indexes provide additional means of access.Thomsett, Michael C. is the author of 'Political Quotations A Worldwide Dictionary of Thoughts and Pronouncements from Politicians, Literary Figures, Humorists and Others' with ISBN 9780899509518 and ISBN 0899509517.