{"id":1342,"date":"2010-12-15T06:27:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2010-12-15T06:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T10:27:39","slug":"on-politics-from-margaret-thatcher-to-gore-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Margaret Thatcher to Gore Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">There are no lost causes in politics because there are no won causes. \u2013 Margaret Thatcher <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. &#8211; Margaret Thatcher<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. &#8211; George Orwell <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. \u2013 T.H. Huxley<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">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. &#8211; Robert LeFevre <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">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. &#8211; H. L. Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. &#8211; H. L. Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. &#8211; H.L. Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. &#8211; H.L. Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Adultery is the application of democracy to love. &#8211; H.L. Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy allows mediocrity to rise to the top. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. &#8211; HL Mencken<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. \u2013 Lenin <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Believe nothing until it has been officially denied. &#8211; Claud Cockburn<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Things in our country run in spite of government, not by the aid of it. \u2013 Will Rogers <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">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. &#8211; Thomas Sowell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Take our politicians:\u00a0 they&#8217;re a bunch of yo-yos.\u00a0 The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.\u00a0&#8211; Saul Bellow<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The constitution has broken down.\u00a0 We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs.\u00a0 They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion.\u00a0 This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them.\u00a0 They are malleable.\u00a0 They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s deeply corrupt. &#8211; Gore Vidal<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no lost causes in politics because there are no won causes. \u2013 Margaret Thatcher If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. &#8211; Margaret Thatcher The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. &#8211; George Bernard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}