My favorite quotes on politics:
"t is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to never practice either of them."
- - - Mark Twain
"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
--- Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.''
--- Ronald Reagan
Favorites on life
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.''
--- Thucydides
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.'' --- Seneca
"When you walk, just walk. When you sit, just sit - and don’t wobble." -- ?