* Politics Quotations (Quotes at Davar Web Site)           01/08/2009-02/23/2014
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors.
#[Plato] (427-347 BC)

Man is by nature a political animal.
#[Aristotle] (384-322 BC)

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something
beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
#[Aristotle] (384-322 BC)

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of
revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has
perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But
this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and
miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and
repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of
some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns
this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public
liberty.
#[George Washington] (1732–1799)<BR><A HREF="http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript&doc=15&title=Transcript+of+President+George+Washington%27s+Farewell+Address+%281796%29">Farewell Address</A>, 1796

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit
of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries
has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
#[George Washington] (1732–1799)

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
#[Ambrose Bierce] (1842–1914)

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove
that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are
right.
#[Henry Mencken] (1880-1956)

There is no conservative like the child of a radical.
#[Will Durant] (1885-1981)<BR>"[The Story of Civilization]" 1(11), Our Oriental Heritage, 1935

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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of
revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has
perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But
this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and
miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and
repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of
some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns
this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public
liberty.
#[George Washington] (1732–1799)<BR>Farewell Address, 1796  <-- Make it a link!

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he
proposes to pay off with your money.
#G. Gordon Liddy (-)