Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: politics history america united-states usa revolution immigration
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Tags: politics elections hg2g rulers
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: politics war weapons government guns military military-budget poverty
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Theodore RooseveltTags: politics government government-corruption senate
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. BurroughsTags: politics philosophy drugs
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Keith RichardsTags: politics music philosophy drugs
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm XTags: politics philosophy
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George BurnsThe French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.
Garrison KeillorMy concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham LincolnTags: inspirational politics religion philosophical religious
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