Spreading The Wealth

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

Net Worth: Measurement of a fisherman's wealth - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health. - Hebrew Proverb

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Be charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and lose not the glory of the mite. - Thomas Brown

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter F Drucker

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

A lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle