What's your favorite political quote?

Answer 1

I love quotes. This are a few of my favorites.
The Aim of an Argument ... should not be victory, but progress. - Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident. "- Arthur Schopenhauer
"One defeats the fanatic precisely by not becoming a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. - "George Orwell
"Concerning nonviolence: It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself, when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law."
Malcolm X
"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."
Malcolm X
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
- Dresden James
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
-William J. Clinton (Your last ELECTED President)
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (Chinese Proverb)
"The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to."
Barbara Ehrenreich:
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
G. K. Chesterton
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. - Aldous Huxley

Answer 2

"...We can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

--President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

It should be read to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi every day.

Answer 3

"Ask not, "what can your country can do for you," Ask, "what can you do for your country!!!"

Quote by: President John F. Kennedy

My favorite political quote!

Answer 4

George W. Bush

In an Address to the Nation on Iraqi Elections (December 18th, 2005) :
"My conviction comes down to this: we do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them. "

In his Second Inaugural Address (January 20, 2005):
"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. "

Answer 5

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan
"There you go again!"- Ronald Reagan
"...you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." - Richard Nixon
"Extremism in the name of Liberty is no vice." - Barry Goldwater

Answer 6

"I voted for the 80 billion dollars, before I voted against it"
John Kerry, 2003 election.

"That depends what your definition of is..is". Bill Clinton, impeachment trial.

"The tree of Liberty must be replenished from time to time, with the blood of patriots" Thomas Jefferson.

"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither"
Ben Franklin.

"Ask not what your country will do for you, as what you can do for your country" John F. Kennedy.

Standing on a pile of rubble at the World Trade Center, his arm around a fire fighter......" I hear you, the American people hear you....and those responsible for knocking down theses buildings will hear from all of us soon!" George W. Bush .

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Answer 7

"That depends what your definition of is..is". Bill Clinton, impeachment trial.

Alberto Gonzalez Habeus Corpus is not explicitly stated.

Answer 8

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. It appears a lot of people love this one....but have you noticed that there are still 1000's upon 1000's still asking and wanting their country to do something ' FREE ' for them.

Answer 9

It's time for the Human Race to enter the Solar System.
- G. W. Bush

Answer 10

Anything from Churchill