On Politics – from Ben Franklin to the Wall Street Journal

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. – Martin L. Gross
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. – Clarie Sargent
Washington, D.C. is a city lying in the gutter, wallowing in hypocrisy. It has become a bizarre sinkhole of character assassination and smirking self-righteousness. It will eagerly cast not only the first stone but any other rocks that it can lay it hands on. – Wall Street Journal Editorial

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