Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
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/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/4liye13x · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
tiny.ag/ocm1aexh · submitted 1997
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman, All Honorable Men, 1963, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · submitted 1997
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · submitted 1997
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/nbd9g5v4 · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/qe9sruc8 · submitted 1997
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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