Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
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/yx6rgpvi · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
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/4oqnfdf0 · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · 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/kge2ejcq · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/if7zb5ls · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
tiny.ag/g1wxfjbw · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/c3fgjq70 · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
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