Political Quotes

Question 1

Winston Churchill
On Democracy
(2 Clauses)

Answer 1

1. The best argument against democracy is

2. A five minute-conversation with the average voter.

Question 2

Anonymous
Future Tress
(3 Clauses)

Answer 2

1. A society grows great
2. When old men plant trees
3. In whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Question 3

Anonymous
Exposing Crime vs. Governance
(2 Clauses)

Answer 3

1. When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime

2. You are ruled by criminals.

Question 4

Alexis de Tocqueville
Lies and Truths
(2 Clauses)

Answer 4

1. It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie

2. Than a complex truth.

Question 5

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War & Poverty
(2 Paragraphs, 2 Clauses)

Answer 5

P1A. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired SIGNIFIES, in a final sense

P1B. A THEFT from those who are hungry and not fed, those who are cold and not clothes.

P2A. This world in arms is not spending money alone,

P2B. It’s spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Question 6

Voltaire
Right, Wrong, Perspective
(2 Clauses)

Answer 6

1. It is dangerous to be right in things
2. Where accredited men are wrong.

(Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses ou des hommes accrédites ont tort.)

Question 7

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bootstraps
(2 Paragraphs, 2 Clauses)

Answer 7

P1A. It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man

P1B. That he should lift himself by his own bootstraps.

P2A. It is even worse to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps

P2B. When somebody is standing on the boot.