One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.