By George Journal is on track to provide 1,000 quotes on politics – sayings and quips on democracy, government, elections, bureaucracy, leadership, etc. (yes the whole ball of wax). We will be providing hundreds of the quotes from Canadian sources. And, if you’re counting, our quote total is at 300 with this post.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he know everything. That points clearly to a political career. – George Bernard Shaw
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. – George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw
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Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis Brandeis
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think. – Anonymous
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The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. – Robert L. Heilbroner
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. – Benjamin Franklin
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. -Dennis Prager
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Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. – Felix G. Rohatyn
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. – Arthur Goldberg
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? – St. Augustine
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm
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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. – Benjamin Lichtenberg
