Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/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/toiqhdlg · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
tiny.ag/nsami72o · submitted 1997
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
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/vdyroj5m · submitted 1997
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
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