2,024 Quotes About Political

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.

Italy has been made; now it remains to make Italians

Truth is commodity in political consumption.

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.

...political correctness is ... not about tolerance; it’s about “toe the party line or it’s the gulag for you, Comrade.” - Solbury Tor

One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures, and that means not only informed and responsible criticism but the freedom to speak foolishly and without moderation.

The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.

Aber wenn die Menschen nicht einmal mehr während des Studiums Zeit haben, sich allgemeines Wissen anzueignen, wann sollen sie es dann schaffen?Wenn jemand im Laufe seines Lebens dazu nicht die Wissbegierde und die Kraft aufbringt, kann man ihm nicht helfen. Das lernt er dann leider auch nicht durch lange Jahre auf der Universität.

From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home.