~The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. 

Jack Anderson 

~Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles

~In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

~Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures”.

Robin Williams

~I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson,  U.S. Senator

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On War and Peace

~Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

~The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

~War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

General Smedley Butler

~Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

John T. Flynn

~The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...

Simone Weil

~We may extend our dominion over the whole continent... but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions.

Rep. William Waters Boyce

~I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...

Harry Emerson Fosdick

~Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Senator Robert M. La Follette

~After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

Jeanette Winterson