Sergio Aragones Quotes

That I have no friendship for Franklin I avow. That I am incapable of having any with a man of his moral sentiments I avow. As far as fate shall compel me to sit with him in public affairs, I shall treat him with decency and perfect impartiality.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

I was not elected to serve one party.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.