Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/sq8ko4bm · submitted 1997
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
tiny.ag/bncpxtdu · submitted 1997
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S.
tiny.ag/0c4jaqsc · submitted 1997
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/c3jsrgej · submitted 1997
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
tiny.ag/yxe7ui5g · submitted 1997
A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
tiny.ag/dnnrwvkr · submitted 1997
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
tiny.ag/i6fve9yg · submitted 1997
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
tiny.ag/mvz0j45c · submitted 1997
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
tiny.ag/r8irgp4q · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
tiny.ag/gt1zngj3 · submitted 1998
There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.
tiny.ag/cjhepgxr · submitted 1997
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/kxvl7q1s · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
tiny.ag/x9dblm0j · submitted 1997
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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.
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