"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy on Politics"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain on Politics"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato on Politics"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman on Politics"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Stalin on Politics"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."