No man is good enough to be another man’s master. –George Bernard Shaw
The ways of music and of government are closely related. –from The Li Chi
A perfect argument does not employ words. –Chuang Tzu
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights. — Sir William Blackstone
Have you forgotten? –Brad Paisley
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. –Tacitus
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. –Emerson
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood … there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! –Padraic Pearse
When a country is well governed, poverty and want are things to be ashamed of; when a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of. –Confucius
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Brooks Adams
“Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?” someone asked the chaplain. “No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.” — Edward Everett Hale
He brings disaster on his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation. –Gibran
How much easier to be generous than just. –Junius
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. — John Caldwell
The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.– William Harvard
Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. — Anon
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. — Gerald R. Ford
A man may not always eat and drink what is good for him; but it is better for him and less ignominious to die of the gout freely than to have a censor appointed over his diet, who after all could not render him immortal. –George Santayana
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own. — Frank Dane
The popular plan to gain freedom is to enslave others. –Elbert Hubble
It is the power of appearance that leads us astray. –Plato
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. — Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean Jacques Rousseau
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way. — Omar N. Bradley
Fraud and Deceit are always in Haste. –Thomas Fuller
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. –Confucius
A hungry man is not a free man. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who dream of the banquet wake to lamentation and sorrow. –Chuang Tzu
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. — Henry P. Fairchild
Though the people support the government, the government should never support the people. –Grover Cleveland
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. –Van Panopoulos
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. — David Ben-Gurion
Many a person seems to think it isn’t enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him.
– Anonymous
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: “No man should have so much.” The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: “All men should have as much.” –Phelps Adams
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote. — William L. Shirer
