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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Author: Philip Zimmermann
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A thief believes everybody steals.
Author: E.w. Howe
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Author: Lenin (vladimir Ulyanov)
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Author: Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
Author: Victor Frankl
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.
Author: Theodore White
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Author: Victor Frankl
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Author: Norm Crosby
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".
Author: Max De Pree
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Author: Arnold Glasgow
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All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.
Author: 'columbia Record'
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Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
Author: 'detroit Journal'
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What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
Author: Julie Cochrane
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The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' - July 27, 1992
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Author: Ken Konecki
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The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
Author: U.s. Vs Cruikshan
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Author: Gen. William Sherman
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The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Author: Eugene Debs
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song".
Author: John Dickinson
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
Author: David Harris
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By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Author: Jerry Rubin
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Let the sun shine in.
Author: Anti-war Poster
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
Author: Colonel William Prescott
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Author: William Westmoreland
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
Author: Alan Coren
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Author: J. W. Fulbright
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The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
Author: Nick Nuessle
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The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
Author: Joseph Schumpeter
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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Author: Jimmy Breslin
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
Author: David Broder
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You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
Author: John Dean
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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Author: Archibald Cox
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When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
Author: Dick Houser
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Author: Leon Jaworski
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
Author: Marion Barry
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Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.
Author: Edward Cheyfitz
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I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Author: Grover Cleveland
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
Author: John G. Diefenbaker
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A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
Author: Everett Mckinley Dirksen
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Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
Author: Roger Ebert
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
Author: Dan Quayle
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Author: Dan Quayle
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Author: Dan Quayle
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
Author: James Harvey Robinson
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The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.
Author: John F. Seiberling
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
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He loved politicians - even Republicans.
Author: Margaret Truman
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