Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/mwoxawkr · submitted 1997
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
tiny.ag/yh5kxuzq · submitted 1997
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, (inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame), 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/zzcxms0q · submitted 1997
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
tiny.ag/a1rdjbky · submitted 1997
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
tiny.ag/yuvqmpjc · submitted 1997
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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/gt1zngj3 · submitted 1998
There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.
tiny.ag/r8irgp4q · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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/i6fve9yg · submitted 1997
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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/kxvl7q1s · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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/ts0c3ysu · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
tiny.ag/vdjyoa1u · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/czwb1kco · submitted 1997
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
tiny.ag/flwibuot · submitted 1997
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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