Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/zzcxms0q · submitted 1997
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
tiny.ag/s0wufote · submitted 1997
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · submitted 1997
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/zxzulgcs · submitted 1997
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/5agdml7e · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lvxaopme · submitted 1997
Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/weoyuknk · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valéry, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/mwoxawkr · submitted 1997
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
tiny.ag/yh5kxuzq · submitted 1997
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, (inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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