A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. – Woodrow Wilson
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. – E. B. White
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. – Oscar Levant
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. – William O. Douglas
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. – Daniel J. Boorstin
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. – Albert Pike
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. – Fidel Castro
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. – Ralph Nader
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. – Lady Bird Johnson
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. – Fidel Castro
The world is governed by opinion. – William Ellery Channing
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. – Neal Barnard
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. – Herbert Hoover
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. – Daniel Webster
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. – A. N. Wilson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. – John Morley
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. – Imelda Marcos
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. – Deng Xiaoping
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. – Henry Adams
