A New Era

Long on hair, sort on brains. - French Proverb

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

The drowning man grips to his own hair. - Greek Proverb

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. - Phyllis Diller

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

A celebrity is anyone who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. - Steve Martin

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. - Cicero

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

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

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov