Plato Quote – Those Who Are Too Smart

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” – Plato
Read more“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” – Plato
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Read more“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and “treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?” – Dr. Fred Oerther
Read more“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” – George Burns
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