propagating a random quote script. Post your favorite political quotes

[wyldwolf]

Thanks!

[Glorfindel]

1. Thomas Jefferson:

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

:patriot:

[hobbit709]

5. More Jefferson

My fave 1."I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

2."What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance."

3."Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

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2. We are obliged

"We are obliged at this time to struggle, with all the Powers with which the Constitution hath furnished us, in Defence of our Rights; to prevent the most valuable of our Liberties from being wrested from us, by the subtle Machinations, and daring Encroachments of wicked Ministers." - Sam Adams 1771

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3. Mark Twain

1. "Suppose sir, that you are an idiot
And suppose that you are also a member of Congress
But I repeat myself"

2. "First God made idiots. That was for practice.
Then he made school boards."

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4. Universal truth...

"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." - James Madison

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6. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb..

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin

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7. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime." - Thomas Paine

[david_vincent]

8. John Adams

The government of the United States of America is not in any way founded upon the principles of the Christian religion.

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9. The men the American people admire most...

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken

[welshTerrier2]

10. "No truly sophisticated proponent of repression ..."

"No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the façade of democratic institutions." - Murray B. Levin, Political Hysteria in America

i also like the warning to citizens in a democracy in my sig:

"so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - bob dylan

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11. Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit...

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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12. Behind the ostensible government...

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." -Theodore Roosevelt

[Todd B]

13. A few of my favourites:

"Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.", ~ Carlos Santana

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", ~Douglas Adams

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.", ~ Mao Tse-Tung

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14. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

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15. The essence of the liberal outlook...

"The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." - Bertrand Russell

[mcscajun]

16. A few classic favorites...

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." – Benjamin Franklin

"I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. (Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.) My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." – John Quincy Adams

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" – Thomas Jefferson

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt