Pandemic Treaty

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

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

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

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

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

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

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

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

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

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

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

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

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

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

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

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

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

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

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

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

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

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