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Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

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

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

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

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha

This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. - Winston Churchill

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

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

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S Buck

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

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

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus