Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/c3fgjq70 · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
tiny.ag/v1p3a7wp · submitted 1997
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", Harvard Law Review, vol. 32, pp. 932–957 (1919), in 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/bncpxtdu · submitted 1997
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S.
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Law and Politics
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/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/t7gxzovf · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/uqnuiixs · submitted 1997
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
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/4yehmrsj · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/ohswxac4 · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
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/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/7j6zgqod · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women
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