Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-11-05 Nov 5, 2008When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~ Clarence S. DarrowI could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.~ Thomas JeffersonI don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.~ William Marcy Tweed Nov 4, 2008We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.~ Woody AllenTreason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.~ Sir John HaringtonThe devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles Baudelaire Nov 3, 2008No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah ArendtFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.~ Thomas SowellWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.~ Mark Twain Oct 31, 2008Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham LincolnDemocracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 30, 2008Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard ShawThe principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.~ Lysander SpoonerA people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ William O. Douglas Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print