Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/mghtjmlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
tiny.ag/jjhww8cq · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
tiny.ag/f4xotdy1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
tiny.ag/kxvl7q1s · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · ★★☆☆ Fair (790 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
tiny.ag/ts0c3ysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
tiny.ag/flwibuot · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
tiny.ag/czwb1kco · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (285 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · 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/qk3eo0wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/vdjyoa1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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