Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [701-720] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.~ Mark Twain Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.~ Mark Twain We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.~ Mark Twain Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.~ Mark Twain How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better.~ Mark Twain Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.~ Mark Twain All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.~ Mark Twain A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence.~ Unknown A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist.~ Unknown If you think talk is cheap, hire a lawyer.~ Unknown Letter to the President of the United States from an American Indian: 'Be careful with your immigration laws. We were careless with ours.'~ Unknown Of course you can trust the United States government. Just ask any Indian.~ Unknown Politicians are like diapers and need to be changed for the same reason.~ Unknown The worst penalties are always imposed on those seeking to help the oppressed.~ Unknown There are three parties in Washington, D.C. . . . Republican, Democratic and Cocktail.~ Unknown We need a law that will allow a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise.~ Unknown When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' ~ Unknown Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos].~ U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.~ Paul Valéry Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print