Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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121–140 (163)
tiny.ag/r3qhocip · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
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/nbd9g5v4 · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/7graufwl · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
tiny.ag/cuh1ej24 · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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/6e8jdhxa · submitted 1997
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
tiny.ag/h54z3wxd · submitted 1997
Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ywjorl1b · submitted 1997
When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
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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