Political Quips and Witticisms
Published July 19, 2019
Updated June 11, 2021
Definition of Political Witticism: See Mark Twain or former Texas Governor, Ann Richards, for a clever, witty, and often biting or ironic remark. Synonyms within the context of this page include: wise crack, one-liner, maxim, saying, proverb or adage.
​ Political Quips and Witticisms
"Proficiency in listening encourages and electrifies the Freedom of Speech."

"Freedom of Speech is most threatened by those who fail to listen."

"Woodrow Wilson wrote in The New Freedom that 'A nation is as great, and only as great as her rank and file.' I have to wonder sometimes how 'rank' we can get with each other on social media before we collapse as a society."
Peter E. Greulich, July 17, 2019
"A free press is quite different from a press for free. The former emancipates a society through its objectivity and well-researched facts, and the latter oppresses a society with its subjectivity and emotional opinions."
Peter E. Greulich, July 24, 2019
"Has our human capacity for forgiveness kept pace with the Internet's growing passion for condemnation?"
Peter E. Greulich, January 21, 2020
"Individualism in thinking, cooperation in doing."
Christy Borth​,True Steel: The Story of George M. Verity
The great malady of public life is cowardice.
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Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life, if my observation is to be trusted, come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.

​God knows why they should be: it is generally shadows they are afraid of.
Woodrow Wilson, American Chronicle
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