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We have met the enemy, and he is us. Pogo 

Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done. Lord  Hewart

We have staked the future of American civilization upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. Walter Winchell

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E.B. White

He sits there in senile dementia with a gangrene heart and rotting brain, grimacing at every reform, chattering impotently at all things that are decent, frothing, fuming, violently gibbering, going down to his grave in snarling infamy ... disgraceful, depraved ... and putrescent.
Hiram Johnson, about Harrison Grey Otis

In this dangerous international age, notions of exalted and exaggerated nationalism, national egocentrism and isolationism, of chauvinism or group superiority and master race, of group exclusiveness, of national self-righteousness, of special privileges, are in the interest of neither the world nor of any particular group in it. Ralph Bunche

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert Maynard Hutchins

That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there!  George Orwell in the democratic socialist weekly Tribune, 1940

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. Bill Press,  about Pat Buchanan

There aren't any three branches of government. It's all government. And it sucks. John Matonis, speaking at the 1977 Libertarian national convention. The Progressive, January 1978 

"A capitalist is eager to sell a rope for himself to hang with" Abraham  Lincoln

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times  command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Benjamin Disraeli, about William Gladstone

The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. He makes me tired. Ambrose Bierce, about Oscar Wilde 1882

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. (1874) Benjamin Disraeli 

"I can't stand this proliferation of paperwork. It's useless to fight the forms. You've got to kill the people producing them." Vladimir Kabaidze, General Director of Ivanovo Machine Building Works 

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." - P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores 

Any political party that can't cough up anything better than a trecherous brain-damaged old vulture like Hubert Humphrey deserves every beating it gets. They don't hardly make 'em like Hubert any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway. Hunter S. Thompson

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us." - P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores 

I may not know much, but I know chicken sh*t from chicken salad. Lyndon B. Johnson, about a speech by Richard M. Nixon

I worship the quicksand he walks in.
Art Buchwald, about Richard Nixon

Nixon's motto was: If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Norman Cousins, about Richard M. Nixon

Sir Richard-the-Chicken-Hearted.
Hubert H. Humphrey about Richard M. Nixon

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." - Dan Quayle 

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." Dan Quayle (and Yes, I'm a Republican) 

"I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it." - Rep. Dick Gephardt

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. Adlai Stevenson

Valor is of no service, chance rules all,
and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. Tacitus

It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain

He had a charisma that must have come out of an immaculate conception between Fidel Castro and Groucho Marx. They went into his soul and he came out looking like an ethnic milkshake--Jewish revolutionary, Puerto Rican lord, Italian street kid, Black Panther with the old Afro haircut, even a glint of Irish gunman in the mad, green eyes. Norman Mailer,  about Abbie Hoffman
 

  

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