(verb) To engage in political activity; politick.
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
"I am an artist, not a politician."
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."
"I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days."
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government."
"The dead should not rule the living."