Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/i6fve9yg · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
tiny.ag/mvz0j45c · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · ★★☆☆ Fair (285 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/nqhblasx · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
tiny.ag/raffprlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/sneiqva0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/jy8gye2w · ★★☆☆ Fair (768 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/vruohmzb · ★★☆☆ Fair (671 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.
Howard Koch, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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