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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

—Che Guevara, 1968

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

—John Nance Garner, c. 1967

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

—Tacitus, c. 117

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

—George Borrow, 1843

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

—Robert Byrd, 2005

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BC