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Law and Politics
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." [Select] Lord Greene {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them. [Select] It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. [Select] It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed. [Select] The people must fight for their laws as for their walls. [Select] Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. [Select] Edouard Herriot (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) [Shop] 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. [Select] Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf [Shop] What luck for the rulers that men do not think. [Select] The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. [Select] Justice is incidental to law and order. [Select] It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. [Select] The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. [Select] Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences. [Select] I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. [Select] The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. [Select] The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. [Select] And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. [Select] John F. Kennedy (inaugural speech, 1961) {Also in: War and Peace} If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Select] Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. [Select] John F. Kennedy {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Select]
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