The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
Democracy is the best and the worst type of government. (American)
Democrats will do anything for the poor – except make them rich. (American)
Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp [either political or military]. (Roman)
Far from court, far from care. (English)
For lack of good men, they made my father mayor. (Spanish)
Former magistrates will always be thought the best. (Korean)
He who would succeed at court, must lie sometimes low, sometimes high. (German)
In politics, a man must learn to rise above principle. (American)
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at top. (Poor Richard)
Let not your own, but the public wishes, motivate you. (Roman)
Politics has no religion. (French)
Politics makes strange bedfellows. (American)
Who serves the public, serves a fickle master. (Dutch)
Who serves the public, serves no one. (Italian)
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