Quotations for the Bush Era

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--Lord Acton

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
--Edmund Burke

Every country has the government it deserves.
--Joseph de Maistre

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.
--Sinclair Lewis

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no true patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
--G. K. Chesterton

 

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.
--Ben Bradlee

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself: nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead

God bless America again.
--Bobby Bare