“The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.”
First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913) <br class="br">1910s
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Prime Minister's Questions (11 December 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104460 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
“All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.”
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
As quoted in Crown's Book of Political Quotations : Over 2500 Lively Quotes from Plato to Reagan (1982) by Michael Jackman, p. 160
“Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 7.
Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer
Also quoted in Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in India by Makarand R. Paranjape
1990s, BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence (1997)
Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 32
“There is no doubt. Socialist party, how is it? Germany’s National Socialist Party.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
Claiming that Nazism was a leftist movement, after visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel, on 2 April 2019. Brazil’s president resurrects the zombie claim that Nazism was a leftist movement https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/07/brazils-president-resurrects-zombie-claim-that-nazism-was-leftist-movement. The Washington Post (7 May 2019).
Leanne Wood (1971) Welsh Plaid Cymru politician
General Election: Leanne Wood decides against MP bid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39683573, BBC News, 23 April 2017 <br class="br">2017
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/