"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it." ― Thomas Jefferson Topic(s): Politics Tags: politics, torment More From Thomas Jefferson "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." More In Politics "There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."― Benjamin Disraeli "I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."― William Gilbert "I get cold – really cold – when I travel."― Laura Linney