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-- Mark Twain
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
-- Thomas Wolfe
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
-- Charles Sumner
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.
-- Boris Marshalov
"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
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
-- Ramsey Clark
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
-- Henry Thomas Buckle
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
-- Allen Tucker
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
-- Louis D. Brandeis
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them"
-- Robert Emmet Sherwood
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
-- Harry S. Truman
Diplomacy: lying in state.
-- Oliver Herford
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
-- Daniele Vare
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
-- Grover Cleveland
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents ... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
-- Abraham Lincoln
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
-- Otto von Bismarck
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
-- Winston Churchill
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
-- Will Rogers
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
-- J. F. Clarke
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-- Confucius
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.
-- William Mather Lewis
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-- O. Henry
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan
Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years"
-- Frank Zappa
The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country...
-- Robert J Woodhead
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
--George Bernard Shaw
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-- Dwight Eisenhower
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
-- Kim Hubbard
One reason why George Washington
Is held in such veneration:
He never blamed his problems
On the former Administration.
-- George O. Ludcke
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.
-- William Ellery Channing
When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A group of seven--year--olds had been teasing and tormenting a six--year--old. "It is always so," my mother said. "You do things together which not one of you would think of doing alone." ... Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things together which nobody in his right mind would do alone.
-- Freeman Dyson
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."
-FDR
"the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
-- Samuel P. Huntington