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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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