Absurd Quote by Horace Walpole

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

— Philip Massinger

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

— Ludwig von Mises

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

— Matt Kibbe

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

— Philip Massinger

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those…

— Malcolm Lowry

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge…

— James Madison

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

— Philip Massinger

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken