Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

A government is a band of hypnotists, they hate people who open their eyes during session

They're all just tools used by the state to maintain the status quo," said Hiawatha.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.