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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. |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
| 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. |
| Milton Friedman | Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. |
| Mohandas Gandhi | It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviole [read rest of quote] |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 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. |
