Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.~ Elias Boudinot Subsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.~ James Bovard The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.~ James Bovard As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.~ James Bovard Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.~ James Bovard The most important political office is that of private citizen.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom Braun Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.~ Bertolt Brecht To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.~ Ashleigh Brilliant Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.~ David Broder But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.~ Yaron Brook Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But it…gets shoved aside in favor of things which at a given moment more vital…everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.~ Heywood Broun For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.~ Harry Browne Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.~ Harry Browne Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.~ Harry Browne If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.~ James Buchanan What is right and what is practicable are two different things.~ James Buchanan We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'~ Patrick J. Buchanan Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print