Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-10-25 Oct 25, 2018In literature as in love, we are astonished by what is chosen by others.~ Andre MauroisPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.~ Oscar AmeringerThis truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.~ Sir Denison Miller Oct 24, 2018In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.~ Ben H. BagdikianI do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.~ Gerrit SmithEvery election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.~ H. L. Mencken Oct 23, 2018Free 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 BrounAll these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values…and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States – and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.~ Otto Hermann Kahn Oct 22, 2018If a law to donate aid to any farmer or cattleman who has had poor crops or lost his cattle comes within the meaning of the phrase “to provide for the General Welfare of the United States,” why should not similar gifts be made to grocers, shopkeepers, miners, and other businessmen who have made losses through financial depression, or to wage earners out of employment? Why is not their property equally within the purview of the General Welfare?~ Charles WarrenA liberal's like to be laxWhen recommending a tax.With a glut in his heartAnd his brain low a quart,He will give youthe shirts off our backs.~ F. R. DuplantierIf one understands that Socialism is not a “share the wealth” program but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super rich men promoting Socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately Socialism, is not a movement of the down-trodden masses but of the economic elite.~ Gary Allen Oct 19, 2018If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits. ~ Edward L. BernaysI shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.~ John AdamsThe political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.~ John Viscount Morley Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print