Your Favorite Political Quotes

[goldcatt]

"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

[Ringel05]

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx

“The enemy isn’t conservatism. The enemy isn’t liberalism. The enemy is bullshit." —Lars-Erik Nelson, political columnist

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained." --Joseph Story

"I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations." --Alexander Hamilton,

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People." --Benjamin Franklin

 

[PoliticalChic]

"We don't need no stinkin' badges..."

Said, I believe, by every public sector employee..

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue ... the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them ... a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers." --James Madison

"f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." --Candidus

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

This sums up obama pefectly.

"The single best decision I have made was selecting Joe Biden as my running mate." --Barack Obama

 

[westwall]

"Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician."--General George S. Patton Jr.

 

[Kaiser Soze]

“It’s naïve to think that social justice is about exposing injustices so that the “good” people of America can eliminate them.” ~unknown

Sig worthy.

 

[(R)IGHTeous 1]

-Raises hand-

Shouldn't this be in POLITICS?

 

[PoliticalChic]

"The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."

These searing words about Depression-era welfare are from Franklin Roosevelt's 1935 State of the Union Address.

 

[Darkwind]

Just prior to the battle of Waterloo....

"Bring me my brown pants!" -- Napoleon Boneparte

 

[Ernie S.]

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.

Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.”

They were actually dear friends

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, you are drunk.
Winston Churchill: And you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson

 

[PoliticalChic]

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.” Milton Friedman

 

[JWBooth]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]“The main trouble with our limited democracy is the scope it gives to the power maniacs in society to impose their bossy urges and fatuous opinions,”
“It may be lovely for bossy people who like deciding how the rest of us should live, but it is hell for those at the receiving end.”
[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif] “Politics is for social and emotional misfits. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome their feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.”
Auberon Waugh
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[Missourian]

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law." -- Winston Churchill

 

[strollingbones]

if you let idiots vote, they elect the biggest idiot....

seems the way of palin supporters

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." --Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book


"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves." --John Dickinson & Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Cause and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 1775