Politics - "poli" Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking creatures"

A free people live forever or die by suicide. - Lincoln

Politicians are like diapers and need to be changed for the same reason.

The two things you never want to see being made are sausages and laws.

About 170 million men, women and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hanged, bombed or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners [in this century]. 

- R.J. Rummel, University of Hawaii professor, in his book "Death By Government"

Since 1949, ... one in every 20 Chinese citizens has been murdered, starved or killed by their own government.

The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. - Joe Sobran

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. - Joseph Sobran 

“Gays” can contribute to pluralism just by being what they are; Catholicism and the Boy Scouts can contribute to it only by ceasing to be what they have always been. - Joe Sobran

The percentage of deaths of unborn children far exceeds that of murderers, because murderers enjoy many safeguards denied to the child. - Joe Sobran

Today federal powers are potentially infinite: all limits have been removed by the federal government itself, which has taken control of that instrument by which it was supposed to be controlled. - Joe Sobran

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. 

- Tacitus, Roman senator

"… the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. . . ." 

- George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

The formal explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem has 24 words. 
Archimedes' Principle has 67 words. 
The Lord's Prayer has less than 70 words.
The Ten Commandments are made up of 179 words.
There are 286 words in the Gettysburg Address.
The US Declaration of Independence has 1,300 words.
US regulations dealing with the sale of cabbage require 26,911 words.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

Government is organized force. Every law is a limitation on liberty. Those who favor the expansion and centralization of the powers of government – liberals, in short – are advocating an increase in the proportion between compulsory action and free action in society. 

- Joe Sobran

Every benefit to one citizen (or to "our children," as Clinton so compassionately prefers to put it) must be paid for by another, and he has to be forced to pay. 

- Joe Sobran

We don’t mind speaking of "killing" when we kill lower life forms. Lawn products kill weeds; mouthwashes kill germs; insecticides kill bugs; mousetraps kill mice. If the human fetus is an insignificant little thing, why shrink from saying an abortion kills it? ...As Orwell noted, dishonest people instinctively prefer the abstract to the concrete. 

- Joe Sobran

"United States of Amnesia" 

- Joe Sobran

"Protect the weak, innocent and defenseless...to relieve the injured and oppressed"
- From a declaration of the Ku Klux Klan, 1867

That is what black "leaders" do: they fight to enlarge the power of the state, narrowing the white man's freedom and taking his money for racial purposes. The state is of course a coercive and parasitic institution, creating and producing nothing, dispensing to some only part of what it takes from others -- "organized plunder," as Bastiat called it. Success in politics is nothing to be proud of. 

- Joe Sobran

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreadsamong them bounties, donations, and benefits. 

- Plutarch

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. -Barry Goldwater. 

PREVENT FOREST FIRES: Register Matches

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad" --Henry Kissinger 

When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. 
When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny. --Thomas Jefferson 

Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was anoutside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders  to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When  presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government. 
- Henry Kissinger from an address to the Bilderbergers in Evian, France, May 21, 1992.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." 
These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine Patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be a strange thing indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. 

- Thomas Paine, 1776

Give a man a fish, and you'll be obliged to provide support for him and his people indefinitely, thereby incurring a permanent line item in the foreign aid budget and increasing the national debt. 
Teach a man to fish, and you'll threaten domestic fish producers with foreign imports, thereby requiring price supports for the fishing industry that will increase the national debt. 

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- President Gerald Ford 

It's not partial-birth abortion, it's murder during delivery. There is no tent big enough for me and people that will do that. 

- James Dobson

Today our leadership is acting largely on a liberal sentimentalism that views foreign policy as a kind of social work. 
- Chuck Colson, Breakpoint, No Good Way Out: The Kosovo Crisis

A University of Chicago Law School study reveals that the percentage of homes with guns has not changed noticeably since World War II. What has changed is the willingness of people to fire their guns at one another.
- Chuck Colson, Breakpoint, Videos and Violence: The Deadly Correlation

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
- Patrick Henry, Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775

Bumper sticker: "Impose Tolerance"

There are moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage . . . may call for
measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. - James Madison, The Federalist Papers 

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. - Alexander Haig

Democracy - Four wolves and a lamb voting on lunch.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS... (Void where prohibited by law)

The Declaration of Independence says "life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness"
It does not say a "DEPARTMENT of Happiness".

Activities engaged in by a citizen to prevent the Government from confiscating the fruits of his labor are the noblest endeavors of man.

- Benjamin Franklin

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep. 
- Robert Herrick, English poet shortly after the execution of Charles I, who had imposed numerous burdensome taxes on his subjects.

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation ... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.
- James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

- John Quincy Adams 

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. 

- Thomas Jefferson

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.... 

- Lord Acton

Those who would trade their liberty for security deserve neither. 

- Ben Franklin

The only way to be equal is to live equal. 

- Brenda Verner, talk show host on WYLL in Chicago

Just because something is a nice thought does not mean it should be a government program.

The "right to die" is not a right to die. People have been dying for a long time. You don't need a right to do it. What it really is is the "right to kill."

"Mom, at school today we didn't do anything to build our self esteem or save the environment. We wasted the whole day on math and reading."

Our vote is the currency of our virtue.

The Declaration of Independence is based on a Declaration of Dependence on God.

Politics never raised anyone from the dead.

There have been 376 years of Christians involved in government (since the Mayflower Compact). No one has been forced to become a Christian. There have been more religious freedoms in this country than anywhere else in history. That is precisely because of the Christian influence.

Just before the civil war, there were two political parties in the United States. One was the Democratic party. They were pro-slavery. The other was the Whigs. They could not decide if they were for or against slavery. They wanted a "big tent." That party dissolved. A third party was born, the Republicans. It had two major planks in its platform: 1. Abolition of slavery 2. Elimination of polygamy (Definition of marriage as one man and one woman)

To trust in the government to solve problems is Statism. It is making a god out of the state.

During the Civil War, a man came to Lincoln and said, "I am anxious to know if God is on our side."
Lincoln replied, "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my concern is to be on God's side."

Law ...is not used as an equitable way to settle disputes but as a means of gaining power or financial rewards -- often getting the courts to do what the people's representatives in the legislature would not do. 

- Chuck Colson

Dwight Eisenhower used to demonstrate the art of leadership with a simple piece of string. 
He'd put in on the table and say, "Pull it, and it will follow anywhere you wish. 
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Someone once called money "the mother's milk of politics."
Well, I say it's time that our leaders declare themselves lactose intolerant. 

- Chuck Colson

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. 

- Thomas Jefferson

When we fail to hold our leaders accountable to standards of right and wrong, we will have lost the right to be free. 

- Chuck Colson

The power to tax is the power to destroy. 

- United States Supreme Court, 1814

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 

- Abraham Lincoln

If the IRS ever wants a theme song, maybe they'll get Sting to do 'Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you.' 

- Ronald Reagan

When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it. 

- New York Times editorial in opposition to the first income tax, 1909

I am a mathematician, not a philosopher. 

- Albert Einstein when confronted with a 1040 form

If you strip away the rhetoric, the Republican Party has no claim, in terms of positions pursued by its leadership, to be any different than the Democrats when it comes to fundamental principles.

- Howard Phillips

The main difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats would take us over the cliff at 80 miles an hour; the Republicans would stay within the speed limit.

- Howard Phillips

If you don't vote for what you believe, you'll never get what you want. 

- Howard Phillips

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. 

- Plato

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. 

- Thomas Jefferson

The education of a free people must alert citizens that they are masters of their destiny, not the beasts of burden for those who promise them security and safety at the expense of their liberty.

Because every law springs from a system of values and beliefs, every law is an instance of legislating morality...The question before us is never whether or not to legislate morality, but which moral system ought to be made legally binding. 

- Machael Bauman, CRI Viewpoint

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." 
- Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)

In 1956, upon being told that he had all the "thinking people" on his side, Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson replied, "That's wonderful. But I need a majority." 

Since World War II, the positions of both parties approximated the following: the Democrats like welfare but oppose warfare; meanwhile, the Republicans oppose welfare but favor warfare. 
- Lew Rockwell

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers. But their methods are still crude and unscientific.
- Aldous Huxley, 1944

That government is best which governs least.

- Henry David Thoreau

During recent centuries, many aspiring rulers have curried the common man's favor by promising them other men's property. 

- Peter Kershaw

I am frequently asked if I really believe that politics is the business of the Church. I do. So is education, science, technology, transportation, health care, welfare, marriage, family, children, birth, death, the environment and any other activity impacting humanity. The business of the Church is to be salt and light in the world. It is not to hide our light under a bushel.

- Craige McMillan

Until today's patriots (especially Christian patriots ) are willing to stand uncompromisingly for the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded (like our fathers did), the course of the country will not change. It might look better, or sound better. It might even smell better -- but nothing will change.
- Dr. Chuck Baldwin

If we want God to once again bless this country with His favor and protection, we must remember that He is in the business of performing miracles for the obedient and faithful, not the pragmatic and fearful. 

- Dr. Chuck Baldwin

It is not the function of our government to keep the citizens from falling into error; it is the function of the citizens to keep the government from falling into error.

- Abraham Lincoln

We've upped ours standards. Up yours.

- Campaign slogan by Pat Paulson

17th century philosopher Hugo Grotius [Gro-shus]: A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot  govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.

There is no theory of a free society that can justify the kind of despotism that permits a few thousand votes in the state of Florida to determine the regime that rules Hawaii and Alaska.

- Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. [Tytler describes the life cycle of civilization as from Bondage to Spiritual Faith to Great Courage to Liberty to Abundance to Selfishness to Complacency to Apathy to Dependency and back into Bondage.]
- from The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, 1776

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles de Gaulle

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

- Plato

When the taxman comes to the internet... Tell him you gave at the office...and the store...and the gas station...and the stock market...and the registry...and at home...and...
- The Libertarian Party

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
- Cal Thomas

The more pleasant the alternatives to gainful employment, the greater will be the number of people who seek these alternatives, and the fewer there will be who engage in productive labor. If society expects anyone to work, work had better be a lot more attractive than idleness.

Never forget that government always uses personal tragedy to gain inroads into places it doesn't belong. 

- Lew Rockwell

Giving money and power to politicians is like giving car keys and a bottle of whiskey to teenage boys.

- P.J. O'Rouke

Didn't Jesus himself say, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's"? But what happens when Caesar thinks it all belongs to him? 

- Craige McMillan

Taxes are not just about money. Every tax represents a transfer of power and freedom from the people to the government. The underlying premise of every tax is that the money will do more good in the hands of government than in the hands of the people who earned it.

- Linda Bowles, WorldNetDaily

Most people are intimidated by the race card when played by the left. Few will take the risk of candor. In these circumstances, a surreal situation has gradually developed until we find ourselves talking now to charlatans and racists as though they were civil rights leaders worthy of respect.

- David Horowitz

The reparations, however, are not to be paid by slave-owners, or even scions of slave-owners, but by working class Hispanics, Asian boat-people, Kosovo refugees, blue-collar whites whose ancestors may have died fighting to defeat the slave power itself, and a hundred million or so others whose ancestors weren’t even Americans in 1865. What kind of lunacy is this?
- David Horowitz

Too many conservative speakers have been driven off American campuses in recent decades; too many newspapers offensive to leftists have been burned in order to deny others access to their ideas. 

- David Horowitz

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. 
- Abraham Lincoln

...the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and [the liberals] didn't want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. In the wake of an attack on America committed by crazed fundamentalist Muslims, Walter Cronkite denounced Jerry Falwell. ...Showing his renowned dispassion and critical thinking, this Martha's Vineyard millionaire commented that Falwell was "worshipping the same God as the people who bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" (the difference being liberals urged compassion and understanding toward the terrorists).
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.5

Indeed, an attack on America by fanatical Muslims had finally provided liberals with a religion they could respect.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.5

If you threw a glass of cold water on a liberal in the middle of a sound sleep, he'd jerk awake denouncing the religious right.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.167

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.194

Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half-century.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.197

It is unusual for liberals not to conceive of themselves as Christ on the cross and their political opponents as Nazi stormtroopers.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.198

Bereft of winning issues, persuasive arguments, or real ideas, liberals are bitter. The one impulse that constantly unites them is hate.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.201

Most of the time, liberals do not imagine the world is real. Their contribution to political debate is worthless, since even they do not believe the things they say.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.203

[C]onservatives in America are the most tolerant (and long-suffering) people in the world.
- Ann Coulter, Slander p.204

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side’s position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.
- Ann Coulter, Slander

[W]e must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction because otherwise they might get mad and seek our destruction.
- Ann Coulter

Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.... 
- Patrick Henry

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman
- Thomas Paine

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
- Sydney J. Harris

Greedy capitalists get money by trade, Good liberals steal it.
- David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom

The past twenty-five years have seen pornography grow from a $10 million-a-year industry to more than a $14 billion-a-year business -- a number that far exceeds what Americans spend at the movies or buying pre-recorded music.
- Chuck Colson

"We have to be much more ambitious about peace in the world -- a world in which the United States should share more of their wealth and be more aware of our role as global citizens." 
- HARRISON FORD at the Venice Film Festival. 

According the the Tax Foundation, the total taxpayer cost for IRS administration, enforcement, record keeping, tax filing, advice and collection is $232.6 billion every year, a sum that exceeds the total federal budget in 1972.
- William H. Shaker, President, Rule of Law Committee

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

If God had meant us to vote, he would have given us candidates.