The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
Showing quotes 81 through 100 in the category “Politics and Government.” Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.
The first mistake in the public business is going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Put not your trust in princes.
We expect modern youth to be strong, courageous and prepared to pay more taxes than their fathers.
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Bess Truman
1885 — 1982
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
The departmental interpreters in Washington can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer; let none think themselves out of reach.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
Tom Waits
1949 —
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Plato
427? — 348? B.C.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valéry
1871 — 1945
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
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