“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.“ -- H. L. Mencken  

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx  

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire  

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination." -- Voltaire  

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.“ -- H. L. Mencken  
 
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." -- Voltaire  
 
Karl Rove taught this principle to shrub:  
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly ... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." -- Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Minister of Propaganda  

"What luck for the rulers that men don't think." -- Adolf Hitler  

"There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders." -- Ralph Bunche, 1950 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate  

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin   

"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between." -- Wesley K Clark, Four Star General, US Army  

"I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame." -- Wesley K Clark, Four Star General, US Army

The Dick Cheney Philosophy of War:  "Naturally, the common people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country. It works the same in every country." -- first stated by: Herman Goering, Hitler's Reichsmarschall at the Nuremberg Trials  

"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism." -- Thomas Jefferson  

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw  

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Quoted in 1918, by REPUBLICAN President Theodore Roosevelt

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." -- Kurt Vonnegut  


"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." -- Laurence J. Peter

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." -- Richard Jeni  
 
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there." -- H.L. Mencken  

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car." -- Laurence J. Peter  

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." -- Lenny Bruce  

"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." -- Frank Zappa