Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/s0wufote · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1997
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (717 ratings) · submitted 1997
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · ★★☆☆ Fair (656 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · ★★☆☆ Fair (800 ratings) · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/czhkruer · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/bncpxtdu · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/nqhblasx · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
tiny.ag/raffprlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
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