Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/zxzulgcs · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
tiny.ag/0c4jaqsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
Oscar Ameringer, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
tiny.ag/mghtjmlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (235 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (733 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (642 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
tiny.ag/ohswxac4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/uqnuiixs · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
tiny.ag/7j6zgqod · ★★☆☆ Fair (359 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women
tiny.ag/grvjpk8x · ★★☆☆ Fair (748 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/5e9cdaq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
tiny.ag/5u0stmi1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
tiny.ag/sq8ko4bm · ★★☆☆ Fair (503 ratings) · submitted 1997
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
tiny.ag/kzothtfn · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1997
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
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