Words from the wise

Would it not be simpler / If the Government / Dissolved the people / And elected another? – Bertolt Brecht History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by…

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. – Thomas Jefferson The two…

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. – John Adams Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. – John Adams Public business…

    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. He knows nothing; and he thinks he know…

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French writer and political theorist, and is today referred to as the father of modern anarchism.     When deeds speak, words are nothing. All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by…

  Here is another 25 quotes on politics… for a total of 250 (a quarter of the way to our goal of compiling 1,000 bon mots on the subject.)  The most important political office is that of the private citizen. – Louis Brandeis Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. – Proverb People often say that, in a…

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. – Kierkegaard Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. – E.B. White Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man’s character,…