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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- America
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.
Tim Blairborn 1965
- Clever Jabs
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2). Translated by Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government (1781), p. 381
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different
opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319
- Abortion
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave Barryborn 1947In: Your Guide to Self-Directed, Daniel Cordoba, CEA, 19 September 2008, p. 197.
- Dave Barry
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948“An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth”, Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Roman Catholics (15 March 1790)
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
Dave Barryborn 1947Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990), p. 124
- Dave Barry
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980)
- Abortion