What is your favorite political quote?

Question

Here are a few of mine.

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress....

But then I repeat myself. Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

P.J. O'Rourke

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. Edward Langley, Artist

(1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson

Answer 1

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”

-Adolph Hitler

It's sad how true this continues to be.

Answer 2

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." —Winston Churchill

"Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." —Winston Churchill

"Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch and that's not easy to do, although you should probably fire the driver." —Barack Obama

"The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center, and now it's gone, and they attacked it... But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that." —Jon Stewart

Answer 3

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald Ford

Answer 4

"There is something rotten in the kingdom of denmark"..

Answer 5

my vote goes to the highest bidder. groucho marx

Answer 6

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

Workers of the world, unite! ~Karl Marx

Answer 8

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.--Santayana