Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
Sinclair Lewis:
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Robert Anton Wilson:
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Albert Camus :
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Edward R. Murrow:
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow:
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Jane Auer:
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least. Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.
Ambrose Bierce:
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
Bill Vaughan:
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Gore Vidal:
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Herbert Marcuse:
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Niccolo Machiavelli:
Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.