Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
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/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/3ygthmd0 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
tiny.ag/zlqsqb5b · submitted 1997
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
tiny.ag/0ssbygzn · submitted 1997
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
tiny.ag/w06shyav · submitted 1997
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
tiny.ag/ts0c3ysu · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
tiny.ag/flwibuot · submitted 1997
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
tiny.ag/czwb1kco · submitted 1997
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
tiny.ag/vdjyoa1u · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/jy8gye2w · submitted 1997
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
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