Morton Blackwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Effectiveness #Numbers #Political
Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Powerful #Politics #Moral
Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Mistake #Perfect #Rivals
Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Giving #Chance
Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Achievement #Effort #Admirable
You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Pay #World #Save The World
Keep a secure home base.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Home
Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Guy #Good Guy #Like You
Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Thinking #Political #Missing
In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Moving #Politics
In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Volunteer #Politics #Faster
Sound doctrine is sound politics.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Politics #Sound #Doctrine
Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Goal #Opponents
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Commitment #Generosity #Letters
The test of moral ideas is moral results.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Ideas #Tests #Moral
Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Action
Actions have consequences.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Action #Consequence
Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Heart #People #Mind
One big reason is better than many little reasons.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Littles #Reason #Bigs
Don't get mad except on purpose.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Mad #Purpose
Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Dog #Eye #Chance
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
-- Morton Blackwell

#Party #People #Political
A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Healthy #Movement #Flow
In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Friendship
You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Friendship #Enemy
Expand the leadership.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Leadership
The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Mind #Endure
Political technology determines political success.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Success #Technology #Political
Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Democracy #Saws #Causes

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