Law and Politics

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honoré de Balzac, in Law and Politics

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan, in Law and Politics and War and Peace

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire, in Law and Politics

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

Voltaire, in Law and Politics

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells, in Law and Politics

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam, in Law and Politics

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde, in Law and Politics

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.

John Peter Zenger, in Law and Politics

"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

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

A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw, in Law and Politics

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer, in Law and Politics

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan, in Law and Politics

Crime does not pay... as well as politics.

A. E. Newman, in Law and Politics

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

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics