Gilbert K. Chesterton Politician Quotations

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.