Thoughtful Thursday

"I and the public know, what all schoolchildren learn, those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
- W.H. Auden

"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate."
- Eric Idle

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."
- H.L. Mencken

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
- Voltaire

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
- Cornelius Tacitus

"A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him."
- Niccolo Machiavelli