North Korean Rhetoric

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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 I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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