Political Sayings

I’m not like a politician who’s gonna lie to your face and then go do something else.

Art is a dictatorship. But it’s a dictatorship where the dictator is never sure.

The government puts chemicals in our food to keep us docile.

I'm the king of making conservatives clutch their pearls.

I'm not a relic. I'm a revolutionary.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

I calculated to be one of the instruments of setting up the kingdom of Daniel by the word of the Lord, and I intended to lay a foundation that would revolutionize the whole world.

Therefore, if the Earth moved, it would necessarily move with a triple motion: one, the diurnal rotation on its own axis; another, the annual revolution around the Sun; and a third, the motion of its axis.

Permit me to say that, in my humble judgment, I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

For this is my rule: government by the law, administration according to the law, gratification of my subjects under the law, and protection through the law.

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one observes the actual requirements of man’s survival and prosperity, one finds that all three of the foregoing—reason, egoi…

The way in which we think about the causes of human behavior has changed in a way that suggests that we are at an early stage of a scientific revolution.

I have persecuted the natives of England beyond all reason. Whether gentle or simple, I have cruelly oppressed them; many I unjustly disinherited; innumerable multitudes perished through me by famine or the sword.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever 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 …

I am a moral, a religious, and a political bigot. I am for the most rigorous morality, the most fervent religion, and the most uncompromising politics.

I was not a 'revolutionary' in the sense of a man with a message. The only thing I was aware of was that I was doing my work, and that it was a question of going forward.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the rights of the individual, and a citizenry wise enough to understand that there is no safety in numbers, in wealth, or in any other form of self-interest.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

my house was broken into my files were blown open my my papers were stolen. we never found out who did it my attorney said it was the government there was no doubt that it was the government. but what they were looking for I don't know what they thou…