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“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other”
Oscar Ameringer
“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”
Mark Twain
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”
Albert Einstein
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
“Politics is just show business for ugly people”
Jay Leno
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion”
Lord Hailsham
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”
Sophocles
