Cemetery Protest

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

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

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

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

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

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

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. - Donald Trump

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

Freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down the fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. - Alice Walker

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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