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Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

The best road to progress is freedom's road. - John F Kennedy

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

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

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom. - William Wallace

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

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

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

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

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

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

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian

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

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato