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- Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to…
- 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.
- Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain…
- People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for…
- Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
- Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it…
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- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan. — Michele Bachmann
- Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker