PandemicSoul Quotelog

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ’safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

(via Neatorama)

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

(via Vagabox Burn)

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

(via Vagabox Burn)

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

(via Vagabox Burn)