Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) American historian
Source: The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955), Chapter IV, part I, p. 132
At the basic Education Conference in 1940, p. 203.
Quest for Truth (1999)
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) American historian
Source: The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955), Chapter IV, part I, p. 132
“We can bear that. for the sake of our country, are you blaming us for loving our country or what?”
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c. <br class="br">2013
“If we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost.”
Jeff Flake (1962) American politician
Speech in the U.S. Senate (2018)
“For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.”
Reginald Maudling (1917–1979) British politician
Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time.
Attributed
Friedrich List (1789–1846) German economist with dual American citizenship
Introduction, in Hirst (1909), pp. 287–288
The National System of Political Economy (1841)
“God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.”
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
Source: Letter to Lady Holland, January 1822
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
Source: "New Year Address to the Nation" http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67514 (31 December 2021)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 289.