Quotes by Blake, William

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in >>

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see al >>

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who d >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning >>

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who >>

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral chara >>

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William