“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
Emma Goldman
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Edmund Burke
“Tossing a politician off a bridge in a sack is a waste of a perfectly good sack.”
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Alfred Ninny Bowager
Philosopher, Scholar, Statesman
Not if the politician might be able to swim.