Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"To do evil that good may come of it
is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."

~ William Penn  

"Political repression consists of government action
which grossly discriminates against persons or organizations
viewed as presenting a fundamental challenge
to existing power relationships or key governmental policies,
because of their perceived political beliefs."

~ Robert Justin Goldstein  

"[The US has] developed two coordinate governing classes:
the one, called ‘business,' building cities, manufacturing
and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic
power over the livelihood of millions;
the other, called ‘government,' concerned with preaching and
exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of
theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it
had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine."

~ Thurman Arnold  

"Anybody that wants
the Presidency so much
that he'll spend two years
organizing and campaigning for it
is not to be trusted
with the office."

~ David Broder  

"Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery
about the rich and the poor should be asked,
'What about the other 90 percent of the people?' "

~ Thomas Sowell  

"The short memories of the American voters
is what keeps our politicians in office."

~ Will Rogers  

"Under every stone lurks a politician."

~ Aristophanes  

"Now I know what a statesman is;
he's a dead politician.
We need more statesmen."

~ Bob Edwards  

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."

~ Edward Langley  

"There is no nonsense so errant
that it cannot be made the creed
of the vast majority
by adequate governmental action."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The mystery of government
is not how Washington works
but how to make it stop."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible
things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we
don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

~ Thomas Wolfe  

"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club."

~ Dave Barry  

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.
They have, taking one with another, no special talent
for the business of government;
they have only a talent for getting and holding office."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

~ Kin Hubbard