Its the Fourth of July weekend and we only have to listen to the endless, breathless blather about the candidates until... November. I thought these quotes could all apply to my weariness of the 24 hour news cycle. Notice that none of them are "current".

When a supporter told Adlai Stevenson, the losing Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, that thinking people supported him, Stevenson said, "Yes, but I need to win a majority."

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -- Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." -- Ronald Reagan

"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." -- Thomas Jefferson

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.  --Soren Kierkegaard

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." -- Adlai Stevenson