{"id":787,"date":"2015-11-20T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=787"},"modified":"2015-11-20T07:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:49:39","slug":"on-politics-from-hl-menken-to-george-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"25 quotes on politics &#8211; from Menken to Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage. \u2013 H.L. Menken<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. &#8211; Pericles<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on. &#8211; Saint Exupery<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">During the Great Depression, Germans rallied to one-man-one-party rule, uniforms, flags and rifles, mass rallies, racial hatred, and appeals to national glory. What would happen in other countries if small businessmen, housewives, artisans, white-collar workers, and students felt betrayed by an alien political establishment, a fraying welfare net, and chronic economic dislocations? &#8211; Claudia Koonz<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. &#8211; Douglas Adams<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Don&#8217;t you know the difference between the two economic systems? Under capitalism man exploits man. But, under communism, it&#8217;s just the other way around. &#8211; Emil Vrabie<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. &#8211; Frank Dane<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. &#8211; Denis Diderot<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. &#8211; Frank Zappa<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. &#8211; Pericles<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. &#8211; Pericles<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men\u2019s lives. &#8211; Pericles<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. &#8211; Jonathan Swift<br \/>\nI am convinced that we can do to guns what we&#8217;ve done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. George L. Roman<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they&#8217;ve told you what you think it is you want to hear. \u2013 Alan Corenk<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn&#8217;t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. &#8211; Jon Stewart<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don&#8217;t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. \u2013 Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">L&#8217;etat c&#8217;est moi. &#8211; Louis XIV<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">You only have power over people as long as you don&#8217;t take everything away from them. But when you&#8217;ve robbed a man of everything he&#8217;s no longer in your power &#8212; he&#8217;s free again. &#8211; Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. -Henry Ward Beecher<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">If you want to understand your government, don&#8217;t begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today&#8217;s statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. &#8211; George Will<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1001-205x300-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"1001-205x300\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; These quotes were lifted from our e-book collection. Check out the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5837\" target=\"_blank\">1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government<\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage. \u2013 H.L. Menken What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. &#8211; Pericles Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. &#8211; Robert Louis&#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\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7479,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/7479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}