It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families.
Quotes about politic (16 Quotes)
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
No I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse At times, indeed, almost ridiculous Almost, at times, the Fool.
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
Protestants are sickened at the sight of terrorists at the heart of our government. We will do everything we can to expel this cancer from the body politic.
A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
There is a clear message from the election results all over the country, ... The American people, by and large as a body politic, are looking for a more centrist approach.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
I think there has been an agreement formed in the administration ... and the body politic of America - a nuclear armed Iranian leadership is unacceptable.
We're playing fairly well. I had good advice last season about (making the NCAA Tournament) and that was not to worry about things you can't control. There is no truth to the rumor that you can politic your way in. My advice to (Fisher) if he asked and I'm sure he won't is not to look beyond your team's next 40 minutes. If you get distracted in your preparation about all the (NCAA talk), that's when you can stumble.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics.
The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.
The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natur.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right.