The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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Politicians are like diapers: they both need to be changed frequently and for the same reason.
Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?
Bertolt Brecht
1898 — 1956
He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
Those who cast the ballots decide nothing; those who count the ballots decide everything.
Josef Stalin
1880 — 1953
On the White House:
I don’t know whether it’s the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the federal prison system.
President Bill Clinton
1946 —
The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Rep. Larry McDonald
1935 — 1983
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
President Harry S Truman
1884 — 1972
The kind of government that is strong enough to give you everything you need is also strong enough to take away everything that you have.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but stand there and take it.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 — 1973
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
President Richard M. Nixon
1913 — 1994
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
If government subsidized beaches, we would have a shortage of sand.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
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