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FAMOUS POLITICAL QUOTES:
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been approximately 200 years." Alexander Frasier Tytler, 1787
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." John Adams
"Under Democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-and both commonly succeed." H.L. Mencken
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; Because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
"We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy." Martin L. Gross
"Government's view of the econmy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stop moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." Charles De Gaulle
"The individual is foolish, but the species is wise." Edmund Burke
"Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle
"Politics 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 Ameringer
"I should say the most important thing about the business of government and politics is not to bore the people." Richard Nixon
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Edmund Burke
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." Harry Truman
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