Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/vyciqzog · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/4rllto8y · submitted 1999 by Felton Davis, Jr.
If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.
Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/2flecxec · 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/gu6tloek · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/qmh4jgbw · submitted 1997
Vote early and vote often.
tiny.ag/lanadgxk · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
tiny.ag/2hab70fi · submitted 1997
Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/jjhww8cq · submitted 1997
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
tiny.ag/f4xotdy1 · submitted 1997
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
tiny.ag/mj0tyu5v · submitted 1998 by Lassi Kämäri
Thoughts cannot be censored.
tiny.ag/4oqnfdf0 · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · submitted 1997
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · submitted 1997
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
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