Law and Politics

If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.

Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics

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

Albert Einstein, in Law and Politics

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honoré de Balzac, in Law and Politics

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

John Perry Barlow, in Law and Politics

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure

Vote early and vote often.

Al Capone, in Law and Politics

When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Unknown, in 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.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics