We're Not Gonna Take It

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

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

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

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

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

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

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

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. - Salman Rushdie

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

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

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

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

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

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

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. - Patrick Henry

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

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

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

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser