{"id":7241,"date":"2015-10-13T23:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T03:19:06","slug":"apolitical-aphorisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7241","title":{"rendered":"Apolitical Aphorisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

These priceless aphorisms appeared in my in-box from an Ottawa follower Dick Inwood. By George decided to reproduce them as, at this stage in the election campaign, all Canadians can use a good laugh. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

“If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” – Jay Leno<\/p>\n

“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.” – Henry Cate<\/p>\n

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” \u2013 Aesop<\/p>\n

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” – Nikita Khrushchev<\/p>\n

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow<\/p>\n

“Why pay money to have your family tree traced; run for office and your opponents will do it for you.” {author unknown)<\/p>\n

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” – John Quinton<\/p>\n

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” (author unknown)<\/p>\n

“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.” – Adlai Stevenson<\/p>\n

“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” – Tex Guinan<\/p>\n

“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles de Gaulle<\/p>\n

“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” – Doug Larson<\/p>\n

“There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on politicians.” – Will Rogers<\/p>\n

And to add to Dick\u2019s missive, we re-post a few poignant posters we recently have come across on Facebook. Again, enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

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These priceless aphorisms appeared in my in-box from an Ottawa follower Dick Inwood. By George decided to reproduce them as, at this stage in the election campaign, all Canadians can use a good laugh. Enjoy! “If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” – Jay Leno “The problem with political jokes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241"}],"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=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}