Interesting quotes and you can realize the truth in them : (Safe for work)

[TyBull]

Interesting quotes and you can realize the truth in them :

We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer

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, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech,1952

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
That is pollution.

What happens if all of them drown?
That is a solution!!!

[charsibb]

Good one, thanks!

 

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

[Grateful Dad]

Some from my favorite social philosopher, G.K. Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936):

 

• "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
• Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
• Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
• It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
• The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Edited September 28, 2013 by Grateful Dad

[smazza]

good stuff

[NCBull]

Enjoyed it!