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Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

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

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

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

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. - Will Durant

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. - Finley P Dunne

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. - Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi