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There are no lost causes in politics because there are no won causes. – Margaret Thatcher
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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. – George Bernard Shaw
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. – George Bernard Shaw
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – T.H. Huxley
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Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible. – Robert LeFevre
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent. – H. L. Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H. L. Mencken
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. – H.L. Mencken
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. – H.L. Mencken
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love. – H.L. Mencken
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Democracy allows mediocrity to rise to the top. – George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – HL Mencken
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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. – Lenin
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Believe nothing until it has been officially denied. – Claud Cockburn
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by the aid of it. – Will Rogers
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. – Thomas Sowell
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Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow
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The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It’s deeply corrupt. – Gore Vidal
