Post your favorite quote, (must be political in nature)

[hatredisnotavalue]

Here's mine, just saw this on another Duer's footer and absolutely loved it.

“"When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."” Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values. His style is at times droll, satirical, yet sympathetic.

I wanted to add that I found this quote on AllieB's profile page, just to give her credit for such a great quote.

[LSK]

1. heres a recent good one

"When right keep it right, when wrong make it right." - Sen John Kerry, April 22, 2006

[djeseru]

2. My favorite from the late Mr. Coffin.

People in high places make me really angry - the way corporations now are behaving, the way the United States government is behaving. What makes me angry is that they are so callous, really callous…When you see uncaring people in high places, everybody should be mad as hell. - William Sloane Coffin

[SeattleGirl]

3. I have a lot of favorites, but here are two I really like:

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men."
--Milton Friedman--

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. From the Good Doctor...

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." -Hunter S. Thompson

[Ariana Celeste]

5. I like this one a lot..

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
G. K. Chesterton

[SiobhanClancy]

6. From JFK...

... if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

[benEzra]

7. H. L. Mencken...

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken


A cynical but true observation, sadly. From "demon rum" in the early 1900's to "reefer madness" to the McCarthy scare to "assault weapons" to using terrorism as an excuse to tap people's phones without search warrants...

[Brigid]

8. From Sandra Day O'Connor:

"A state of war is not a blank check when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens."

[Squeech]

9. I like the bit

where a supporter told Adlai Stephenson that his speech was so good that every intelligent American would surely vote for him.

Stephenson is supposed to have said: "I hope I get more than that, I want to win this!"

It goes with the Mencken and Hunter Thompson quotes.

[madinmaryland]

10. From FDR (very apt today):

"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself"

[taterguy]

11. The biggest and the meanest get to make all the rules

From the vastly under-rated flick North Dallas Forty

[adwon]

12. James Carville, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson

"When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil."--Carville

Several Trumans:

"I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and the Republicans thought it was hell."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." <---should be tattooed on every historian's face who makes 'definitive' pronouncements (disgruntled history major here, sorry :P)

"If you can't convince em, confuse em."

A couple of Johnsons:

"I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day."

"I may not know much, but I do know the difference between chickenshit and chicken salad." --after hearing a speech by Nixon

[Haole Girl]

13. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Adlai Stevenson's quote is pretty damn timely today

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them" - Adlai Stevenson