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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon I (1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French general.
The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist and actor.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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