Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/bjyoe8up · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
tiny.ag/k5imoxc2 · submitted 1997
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
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/t7gxzovf · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/cme83vbu · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
I'm left on the right issues and right on what's left. Now that's an issue I left right in front of you to debate.
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · submitted 1997
A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · submitted 1997
A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
tiny.ag/ohswxac4 · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/mghtjmlg · submitted 1997
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
tiny.ag/5e9cdaq6 · submitted 1997
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
tiny.ag/grvjpk8x · submitted 1997
"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
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