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Law and Politics
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. [Select] Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. [Select] People do not resist change -- they resist being changed. [Select] Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. [Select] Unknown (Russian proverb) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. [Select] Unknown (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger. [Select] Unknown (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it. [Select] Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. [Select] The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. [Select] To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. [Select] Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them. [Select] Unknown (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) [Shop] When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny. [Select] Unknown {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. [Select] We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. [Select] It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. [Select] Every nation has the government it deserves. [Select] There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience. [Select] Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't done. [Select] Thoughts cannot be censored. [Select] When skunks duel, wind direction is everything. [Select] Michael A. Loduha (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series)
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