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| In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
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| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. | | Doug Larson | |
| It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. | | Eugene J. McCarthy | |
| It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. | | Aristotle | |
| It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
| It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them | | Edmund Burke | |
| Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you | | Pericles | |
| Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. | | Edmund Burke | |
| Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
| Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things | | Samuel Johnson | |
| My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode f | | George Washington | |
| Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. | | Lily Tomlin | |
| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | | Henry Kissinger | |
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| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. | | Plato | |
