Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/e5isa1rp · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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/3hmwb2tb · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
tiny.ag/xenm7mq9 · submitted 1997
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
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/ocm1aexh · submitted 1997
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman, All Honorable Men, 1963, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/4liye13x · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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/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/xyjkqvgn · submitted 1997
Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à -tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces.
tiny.ag/3ygthmd0 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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