Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/4rllto8y · submitted 1999 by Felton Davis, Jr.
If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.
Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics
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/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/1kbmhsw6 · submitted 1997
In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/zxzulgcs · submitted 1997
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
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/4awpxubp · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/w06shyav · submitted 1997
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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.
tiny.ag/ts0c3ysu · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
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/raffprlg · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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