Thursday, April 18, 2013

QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM THE GREATS IN HISTORY

KEE@FSWMAG.COM
TRUE OR NOT?

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm
beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the
tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign
funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
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I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I
will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to
be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be
better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at
the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Variously attributed to Will Rogers and George Bernard Shaw






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