Law and Politics

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahlil Gibran, in Law and Politics

How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle, in Law and Politics

I'm left on the right issues and right on what's left. Now that's an issue I left right in front of you to debate.

David Epstein, in Law and Politics

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, in Law and Politics and War and Peace

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.

Robert Frost, in Law and Politics and Men and Women

Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost, in Law and Politics

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

J. A. Froude, in Law and Politics

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith, in Law and Politics

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith, in Law and Politics

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics and Vice and Virtue

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics and Work and Recreation

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein, in Law and Politics

Vote early and vote often.

Al Capone, in Law and Politics

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate, in Law and Politics

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.

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

William Cowper, in Law and Politics and Wealth and Poverty