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Practical politics   /prˈæktəkəl pˈɑlətˌɪks/   Listen
Practical politics

noun
1.
Politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.  Synonym: realpolitik.





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"Practical politics" Quotes from Famous Books



... be paid at once if the war ended by April 1, and the other half upon the final adoption of the Constitutional Amendment. It would have been a happy thing if the work of restoring peace could have lain with a statesman whose rare aberrations from the path of practical politics were of this kind. Yet, considering the natural passions which even in this least revengeful of civil wars could not quite be repressed, we should be judging the Congress of that day by a higher standard than we should apply in ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
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... Whenever, if ever, they begin to be a power in the elections and get members in the House, the temptation to be members of a real live party which may have the government of the country in its hands, the temptation to what is (facetiously, I suppose) called practical politics, will be too much for many, even of those who gravitate towards Socialism; a quasi-Democratic parliamentary party, therefore, would probably be merely a recruiting ground, a nursery for the left wing of the Whigs; though it would indeed ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris
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... everything but one,—he could not dishonor his conscience. His belief that "slavery was founded on injustice" was the only reason for his protest. He never hesitated to protest against injustice. The Golden Rule had a place in practical politics. The Sermon on the Mount was not ...
— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham
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Words linked to "Practical politics" :   political science, politics, realpolitik, government


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