Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/dnnrwvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
tiny.ag/i6fve9yg · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
tiny.ag/mvz0j45c · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
tiny.ag/r8irgp4q · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
tiny.ag/gt1zngj3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1998
There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.
tiny.ag/cjhepgxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · ★★☆☆ Fair (790 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/xyjkqvgn · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à -tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces.
tiny.ag/zlqsqb5b · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
tiny.ag/0ssbygzn · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
tiny.ag/w06shyav · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
tiny.ag/vdjyoa1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/czwb1kco · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
tiny.ag/flwibuot · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
tiny.ag/ts0c3ysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · ★★☆☆ Fair (809 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
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