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Political Quotes by James Bovard
- Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue…
- For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.
- Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
- There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.
- It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle