Politics / government - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665<![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines.. totals can apparently be manipulated from outside the voting area. (on Diane Rehm Show) http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47666<![CDATA[Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47667<![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669<![CDATA[Enemies promises were made to be broken. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47670<![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655<![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47656<![CDATA[Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47657<![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47658<![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47659<![CDATA[A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47660<![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661<![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47662<![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663<![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47650<![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651<![CDATA[What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47652<![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47653<![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654<![CDATA[Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47642<![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643<![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike... ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47644<![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47645<![CDATA[...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47646<![CDATA[The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47647<![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47648<![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47649<![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631<![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632<![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47633<![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47634<![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635<![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47637<![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47638<![CDATA[CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47639<![CDATA[The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47640<![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641<![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47629<![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630<![CDATA[The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47623<![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47624<![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47625<![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47626<![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47627<![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47628<![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615<![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47616<![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47617<![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47618<![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619