Political Quotes - Quotations About Politics

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
-- Mark Twain

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

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
-- Howard Zinn

"Let the people think they govern
and they will be governed."
-- William Penn

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
-- Jay Leno

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run
the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
-- George Burns

"What the United States does best is to understand itself.
What it does worst is understand others."
-- Carlos Fuentes

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press,
is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
-- Robert Jackson