Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-02-13 Feb 13, 2007Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonBeware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ AesopThe whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.~ Wavy Gravy Feb 12, 2007Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.~ John Kenneth GalbraithThere is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.~ Thomas JeffersonGovernment is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.~ George Washington Feb 9, 2007The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.~ Otto von BismarckIn the fight between you and the world, back the world.~ Frank ZappaThere is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.~ Mark Twain Feb 8, 2007On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.~ Will RogersPoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.~ Arthur C. ClarkeAn honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.~ Simon Cameron Feb 7, 2007It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.~ Richard M. NixonPolitics is the art of the possible.~ R. A. ButlerIdeological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.~ Vladimir Ilyich LeninThe opposition is indispensable. A good statesmen, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print