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• 1954 - Richard Wilkins
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• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Form, Worst, Humour

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Economics

• In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Humor, Politics

• In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics

• Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Democrat, Politically, Desire

• If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Humor, Politics

  Tags in Favorable, Common

• Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Freedom, Mankind, Civilization

• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Topics in Politics, Religion

• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Topics in Politics

• I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Money, Politics

  Tags in Understand

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  Oscar Levant

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Humour

• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Belief, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Opinion

• If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

  Hillary Rodham Clinton

  Topics in Politics

• As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Government

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Topics in Humor, Inspirational, Politics, Wisdom

• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Struggle, Despair, Philosophy

• In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

  Toni Morrison

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Means, Else

• A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Freedom

• Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Poetry

• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Next, Happen