As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams