A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.

– Harry S. Truman

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

– Will Rogers (“The Best of Will Rogers”)

I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

– Samuel Adams

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.

– Benjamin Franklin

According to Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein, “all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department. The first two process most matters, as the third is very small…[consisting] of one elderly G5 female clerk, usually out on sick leave.” So of course your orders were processed by the Practical Joke and/or Surprise Party Depts.

– Robert Heinlein

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

– Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22 October 1945 (source)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, the only way to know who’s stabbing you in the back is to see their reflection in the eyes of the person stabbing you from the back.

– Kevin Dutton, quoting a U.K. politician (source)