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Abbie Hoffman  Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse  [read rest of quote]
Abbie Hoffman  Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.  
Abbie Hoffman  Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.  
Abbie Hoffman  The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.  
Abigail Adams  Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.  
Abigail Adams  Great necessities call forth great leaders.  
Abraham Lincoln  What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?  
Abraham Lincoln  Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the l  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be c  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.  
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.  I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s  [read rest of quote]
Albert Camus  By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.  
Bertrand Russell  Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.  
Bob Wells  For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.  
Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915  Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group  [read rest of quote]
Chester Bowles  Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.  
Clement Atlee  Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.  
Dame Edith Sitwell  I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.  
Dwight Eisenhower  Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.  
Emmeline Pankhurst  The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.  
Ernest Benn  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incor  [read rest of quote]
Fidel Castro  We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the fir  [read rest of quote]
Fidel Castro  The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.  
Franz Kafka  Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy  
George Bernard Shaw  Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were   [read rest of quote]
George Washington  Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible  [read rest of quote]
H. L. Mencken  The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a d  [read rest of quote]
Harold Wilson  A week is a long time in politics.  
Harry S Truman  When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.  
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950  Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on  [read rest of quote]
Henry Kissinger  University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.  
I.F. Stone  Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.  
J. K. Galbraith  Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpa  [read rest of quote]
Jacques Chirac  Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.  
James A. Garfield  Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju  [read rest of quote]
James Madison, (attributed)  We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from  [read rest of quote]
James Reston  A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.  
John Adams, (Diary, 1786)  ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue a  [read rest of quote]
John Berger  In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics,  [read rest of quote]
John Cleese  If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking "Do you want fries with that?"  
John Quincy Adams  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection th  [read rest of quote]
John S. Coleman  The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.  
John Stuart Mill  War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat  [read rest of quote]
Lenny Bruce  Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."  
Lester B. Pearson  Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.  
Mao Tse-tung  Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.  
Napoleon  I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr  [read rest of quote]
Otto von Bismark  Politics is no exact science.  
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)  Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.  
Plato  Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber  [read rest of quote]
R. A. Butler  In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense th  [read rest of quote]
R. A. Butler  Politics is largely a matter of heart.  
R. Buckminster Fuller  Truth is a tendency  
Ralph Nader  Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson  The less government we have the better.  
Robert Louis Stevenson  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.  
Ronald Reagan  Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very  [read rest of quote]
Samuel Johnson  Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.  
Senator Soaper  Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do  [read rest of quote]
Sir Winston Churchill  It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been  [read rest of quote]
Ted Turner  Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may eve  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Jefferson  A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.  
Thomas Paine  It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.  
Tom Robbins  Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.  
Tom Stoppard  Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.  
Unknown  Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.  
Will Rogers  On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that h  [read rest of quote]
William Claude Dunkenfield  California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom   [read rest of quote]
Winston Churchill  If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.