{"id":841,"date":"2010-03-14T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-03-14T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:01:39","slug":"quotes-on-politics-total-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on politics (total: 300)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>By George Journal<\/em> is on track to provide 1,000 quotes\u00a0on politics &#8211; sayings and quips on democracy, government,\u00a0elections, bureaucracy, leadership, etc.\u00a0(yes the whole ball of wax). We will be providing\u00a0hundreds of the quotes from Canadian sources. And, if you&#8217;re counting,\u00a0our\u00a0quote total is at\u00a0300 with this post. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">He knows nothing; and he thinks he know everything. That points clearly to a political career. &#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;\">An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. &#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;\">Liberty<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"> means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. &#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;\">Our government&#8230; teaches the whole people by its example.\u00a0 If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. &#8211; Louis Brandeis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.\u00a0 No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/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 a government where you can say what you think even if you don&#8217;t think. &#8211; Anonymous <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The cure for capitalism&#8217;s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.\u00a0&#8211;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Robert L. Heilbroner<\/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 two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.\u00a0 Liberty is a well-armed lamb.\u00a0&#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. -Dennis Prager<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. &#8211; Felix G. Rohatyn <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. &#8211; Arthur Goldberg<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? &#8211; St.\u00a0Augustine<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.\u00a0 Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.\u00a0&#8211; Richard Lamm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy:\u00a0 The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. &#8211; Benjamin Lichtenberg<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By George Journal is on track to provide 1,000 quotes\u00a0on politics &#8211; sayings and quips on democracy, government,\u00a0elections, bureaucracy, leadership, etc.\u00a0(yes the whole ball of wax). We will be providing\u00a0hundreds of the quotes from Canadian sources. And, if you&#8217;re counting,\u00a0our\u00a0quote total is at\u00a0300 with this post. 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