Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/bjyoe8up · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
tiny.ag/k5imoxc2 · submitted 1997
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/eqxg4ask · submitted 1997
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
tiny.ag/py1kf0oz · submitted 1997
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/g1wxfjbw · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
tiny.ag/mj0tyu5v · submitted 1998 by Lassi Kämäri
Thoughts cannot be censored.
tiny.ag/4oqnfdf0 · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/if7zb5ls · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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