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#1

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

1903 likes

#2

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war

1989 likes

#3

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights

1692 likes

#4

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics

1023 likes

#5

“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: adolf-hitler, electoral-politics, george-w-bush, humor, politics

1081 likes

#6

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: humor, isolationism, political-philosophy, politics

639 likes

#7

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

1506 likes

#8

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion

624 likes

#9

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

tags: politics

765 likes

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