Politics(235)

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
Thurgood Marshall

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken

"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right."
H. L. Mencken

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
H. L. Mencken

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
John Stuart Mill

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill

"A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George."
Dennis Miller

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
John Morley

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
Maureen Murphy

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."
Ralph Nader