Adlai Stevenson:
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]

Aesop:
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Anais Nin:
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

David Broder:
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

H. L. Mencken:
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Harry S Truman:
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Noam Chomsky:
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.
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