“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber”. – Plato.

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it”. – Irving Stone.

“Politics s the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other”. – Oscar Ameringer.

“I offered my opponents a deal; if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them”. – Adlai Stevenson, Presidential candidate.

“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country”. – Texas Guinan.

“What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution”.

“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers, and three or more are the government”. – President John Adams.

“I have found that if you want a friend in Washington, you should buy a dog”. – President Harry Truman.

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of the Government. But then I repeat myself”. – Mark Twain.

“Those who don’t read the newspapers are uninformed; those who do are misinformed”. – Mark Twain.

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts”. – Will Rogers, comedian.

“A Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul”. – Will Rogers.

“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth”. – Cicero.

“Almost no one dances sober unless he is insane”. – Cicero.

“Resisting tyranny is the duty of every proud citizen who wishes to live in a free country”. – Sir Winston Churchill.

“You can’t make people good by Act of Parliament”. – Oscar Wilde.

“It is a pity that more politicians are not bastards by birth instead of by vocation”. – Gavin Lyle, British spy writer. 

“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager’.” – William S. Burroughs.

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good”. – Thomas Sowell, American philosopher.

“Misogynist: a man who hates women as much as women hate each other”. – H.L. Mencken the scribe of Baltimore.

“Politics have no relation to morals”. – Machiavelli.

“Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no-one believes and to which no-one objects”. – Margaret Thatcher.

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. – Albert Einstein.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”. – C.S. Lewis.

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right”. – Victor Hugo.

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise”. – Voltaire.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something some time in your life”. – Winston Churchill.

“The Government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods”. – H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Scribe.

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit”. – W. Somerset Maugham.

“America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so that we could all be anything we damned well pleased”. – P. J. O’Rourke.

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. – George Orwell.

“A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offence at everything”. – Aristotle.

“A woman preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs. It is not done well but you are surprised to find it done at all”. – Doctor Samuel Johnson.

“Courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men”. – Benjamin Disraeli.

“It is more important to be beautiful than to be good”. – Oscar Wilde.

“No single criminal can be as powerful for evil, or as unrestrained in its exercise, as an organised nation….It legalises its crimes and forges certificates of righteousness for them, besides torturing anyone who dares expose their true chaacter”. – George Bernard Shaw. 

“Ours might become the first civilisation destroyed not by the power of our enemies but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children”. – Thomas Sowell.

“A thousand years scarce serve to form a State, an hour can lay it in the dust”. – Lord Byron.

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