Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is
one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life."

~ John Silber  

"Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."

~ Pat Paulsen  

"You won't find average Americans
on the left or on the right.
You'll find them at Kmart."

~ Zell Miller  

"Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans
would prefer that the government do it to somebody else."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it whether it exists or not,
diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedy. "

~ Ernest Benn  

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."

~ Lester B. Pearson  

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

~ Pericles  

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?"

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician:
a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."

~ Aristophanes  

"Crime does not pay...as well as politics."

~ Alfred E. Newman  

"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading
as a contest of principles."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"Man is by nature a political animal."

~ Aristotle  

"A true party-man hates and despises candour."

~ Adam Smith  

"In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate."

~ Ben H. Bagdikian  

"The most important political office is that of private citizen."

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis