Famous quotes containing the words historical, political and/or party:
“The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not.”
—Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)