Posted on 02/16/2021 2:57:38 AM PST by TigerClaws
“It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.”
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought
and sold are legislators.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
[And apparently Secretary of State]
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.”
—Bertrand Russell
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.”
— Tacitus
“Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.”
—G. K. Chesterton
“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money - only for wanting to keep your own money.”
—Joseph Sobran
“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”
—Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
“Politicians are like a drunk that walks into a bar, sees a sign that says “All you can drink for $1”, and orders $2 worth.”
“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tip of the iceberg.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.”
—Marcus Cicero
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