“Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.” — John Gardner …

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” — George Bernard Shaw …

“It’s hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world” – Lawrence J Peter …

“It’s hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world.” – Lawrence J Peter …

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” — Abraham Lincoln …

“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod.” — Franklin Delanore Roosevelt …

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” — Aristotle …

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.” — American Essayist, Agnes Repplier …

“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” — Anonymous …

“Education [is] a debt due from present to future generations.” — George Peabody …