“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” Continue reading
Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Politics
“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Politics
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” Continue reading
John Lehman on Power
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” Continue reading
Voltaire on Freedom
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Continue reading
Jeffery F. Chamberlain on America
“In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Language
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” Continue reading
Richard J. Daley on Politics
“Good government is good politics.” Continue reading
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