Quotations for the
Bush Era
2001-2009
"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
