We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
-George MacDonald

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
-G.K. Chesterton – The Cleveland Press, March 1, 1921

If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain
-George Carlin

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
-Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is having the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-George Orwell.

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Ele era corajoso.
Ele era feio.