What's your favorite political quote?

Mott the Hoople said:
I think mine is the Russian proverb "Доверяй, но проверяй" {Doveryai, no proveryai} (trust, but verify) .
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I forget what was said, but I loved it when Bush Sr, tore Trump down to size, with his declarations about him. This might not be the type of quote your looking for though, after reading others.
 
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There are so many great Mark Twain quotes about politics, but this one is apt especially for this place.

"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." –Mark Twain
 
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth. Politics don't appeal to me. I don't like people who don't care about the truth.”
- Boris Pasternak

“If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.”
- Maxim Gorky
 
Cypress said:
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth. Politics don't appeal to me. I don't like people who don't care about the truth.”
- Boris Pasternak

“If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.”
- Maxim Gorky
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Khorosho! If any ppl know politics and political ruin, it is the Russians.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Khorosho! If any ppl know politics and political ruin, it is the Russians.
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Indeed. The misfortune and tragedy has, if nothing else, made them a hearty, and resilient people.
Dostoyevsky spoke to his perception that suffering somehow purifies the soul.

From the American perspective, I always liked that one from Jefferson about his eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
 
"First you must learn to pull an oar, only then can you take the helm"-Lucius Cornelius Sulla

"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full." Lucius Cornelius Sulla

God damn I love Sulla.
 
"And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation."

- BushCo. NeoCon Richard Perle, September 2003.
 
not explicitly political but it still applies:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
 
Quetzalcoatl said:
"First you must learn to pull an oar, only then can you take the helm"-Lucius Cornelius Sulla

"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full." Lucius Cornelius Sulla

God damn I love Sulla.
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I have a number of books on Sulla. Fascinating man. It is said that Machiavelli had Sulla in mind when he wrote The Prince. particulary chapter the Fox and the Lion. The Consul Carbo supposedly said that Sulla was part Fox and part lion and that the Fox was far more dangerous.

The manner in which he defeated Lucious Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus Army is an excellent example of his defeating an enemy army and not losing a single drop of blood.
 
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One of them

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