Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
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/5u0stmi1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
tiny.ag/kzothtfn · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1997
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
tiny.ag/zzcxms0q · ★★☆☆ Fair (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
tiny.ag/yh5kxuzq · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, (inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/mwoxawkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
tiny.ag/weoyuknk · ★★☆☆ Fair (714 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valéry, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/yuvqmpjc · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
tiny.ag/a1rdjbky · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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/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/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/ts0c3ysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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/vdjyoa1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
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.
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