Politics Quotes

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

My God, Judge, do men believe whatever lie they hear about an enemy?

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

Chris. What do you want, child?"I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, "Democracy.

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.

On December 9, 1994, Yeltsin issued a statement ordering the Federal army to execute the disarmament of all illegal armed units in Chechnya, or as they were known locally, the government.

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

Censorship exists to protect corruption.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.