Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · submitted 1997
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, 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/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/uvkikrxz · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/vruohmzb · submitted 1997
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.
Howard Koch, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
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