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POLITICAL BUZZ WORDS A conservative is a man who is to cowardly to fight and to fat to run. Elbert Hubbard But the age of chivalry is gone, that of sophistries, economists, and calculators has succeded. Edmund Burke Reflections on the French I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates World Problems = to many people. The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependant on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf Capitalism did not arise because capitalists stole the land or the workmen's tools, but because it was more efficient than feudalism. It will perish because it is not merely less efficient than socialism but actually self-destructive. J.B.S. Haldane " I Believe " Capital, created by labor of the worker, oppresses the worker by undermining the small proprietor and creating an army of the unemployed. Nikolai Lenin Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Abraham Lincoln Dec. 3, 1861 Capitalism begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation. Karl Marx Don't cheer, boys; the poor devils are dying. Capt. John W. Philip At the battle of Santiago 1898 The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings And who are the greater criminals- those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? Robert E. Sherwood You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. A. Lincoln We build and defend not for our generation alone. We defend the foundations laid by our fathers. We build a life for generations yet unborn. We defend and we build a life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. Franklin D. Roosevelt May 1940 Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, if he be a tyrant. Benito Mussolini "Fascism" We do not believe in programs, in plans, in saints or apostles, above all, we do not believe in happiness, in salvation, in the promise land. Benito Mussolini "Fascism" On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. Sinclair Lewis No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson Where ever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Nietzsche "Ecce Homo" Who ever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Swift "Gulliver's Travels" Germany, the deceased worlds bathhouse. Mark Twain Germany will militarize herself out of existance, England will expand herself out of existance, and America will spend herself out of existance. Lennin No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abrahan Lincoln Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine " Common Sense" Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it. Thoreau " Journal " Feb 3, 1860 Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz And Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work--- I am the grass: I cover all. Carl Sandburg "Grass" How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog. To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise! P.J. Proudhon "Revolutions of Paris" We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin To others at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer "Social Statistics" There are no words,I can use Because the meaning still leaves for you to choose And I couldn't stand to let them be abused, by you. Cat Stevens "Foreigner" History is bunk. What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. H.W. Van Loon "The story of Mankind" The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their side. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line. John Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath" Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. J.A. Froude "Oceana" When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Bernard Shaw "Maxims for Revolution" It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured. Tacitus "Arricola" To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. Plato "Gorgias" Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Bacon And hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Pope "The Pope of the Lock" The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. George Washington "Letter to Randolph 1789" Soldiering my dear madam is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harms way when you are weak. G.B. Shaw " Arms on the Man" Knowledge is power. Hobbes All I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates Labor: one of the processes by which A acquires property for B. Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary" For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own product. Henry George "Progress and Poverty" If fifty men did all the work, and gave the price to five, And let those five make all the rules- You'd say the fifty men were fools. Unfit to be alive. Charlotte P.S. Gilman Toil is the lot of all, an bitter woe The fate of many. Homer "Iliad" Laws are dumb in the midst of arms. Cirero The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France There are two kinds of people;Those who strive to control their environment and those who try to not let their environment control them. Men will sweat through rain and sleet and summer heat. Through this hard earned sweat the American dream is kept. But the mighty machinery of our idle dreamery Consumes it's weight in greenery. Why can't man learn that progress is a cancer; Which decays all around it? Why can't we leave things as we found them? Nature is full of beautiful simplicity. One third of the worlds population suffers from starvation and another third suffers from over weight; while the last one third encourages this to feed their greed. Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big and small problems; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. Albert Einstein "Einstein on Peace" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Horace Greeley Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. Ruth Boorstin "The Wall Street Journal" An economist"s guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else"s. Will Rogers People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loopholes. William Rotsler Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from" Marilyn vos Savant "Parade" Politics is like coaching a football team; you must be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest. Because hate is legislated I need love. Walter Benton I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man can not be to careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russel Pessimism never won any battle. D. Eisenhower Old soldiers never die- young ones do. The reason the government thinks you're a number is because it's just a machine. An American is a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president- but is always polite to traffic cops. The person who uses political power to force others to conform to his ideas seems inevitably to become corrupted by the power he holds. In due course he comes to believe that power and wisdom are the same thing and, since he has power, he must also have wisdom. At this point he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient. Adm. Ben Moreell The number of criminals is still rising. Where are we going to put them all? Prisons and government are already overflowing. War is sure hi-tech, except the part about walking on crutches.