Political Quotes

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference." - Harry Truman

"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." - Oscar Wilde

"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." - John Simon

"In every well governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing." - Anatole France

"It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people." - Gore Vidal

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." - James Thurber

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens, to give to the other." - Voltaire

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us." - P. J. O'Rourke

"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you." - Will Rogers

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." - H. L. Mencken

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it." - P. J. O'Rourke

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat." - Will Rogers

"Patriotism is the conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson

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