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Law and Politics
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S. [Select] Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. [Select] Oscar Ameringer (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) [Shop] Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. [Select] No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. [Select] Lyman Beecher {Also in: Science and Religion} Even Napoleon had his Watergate. [Select] Yogi Berra (on Frenchmen in American politics) Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Also in: War and Peace} Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. [Select] Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. [Select] In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. [Select] Christian Nevell Bovee (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) [Shop] What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? [Select] I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. [Select] An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. [Select] Simon Cameron {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. [Select] Albert Camus {Also in: Success and Failure} Vote early and vote often. [Select] The problem with political jokes is they get elected. [Select] 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. [Select]
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