Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · ★★☆☆ Fair (285 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/4oqnfdf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (235 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (733 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
tiny.ag/mghtjmlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (642 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ohswxac4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · ★★☆☆ Fair (805 ratings) · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
tiny.ag/g1wxfjbw · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/5e9cdaq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
tiny.ag/7j6zgqod · ★★☆☆ Fair (359 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women
tiny.ag/grvjpk8x · ★★☆☆ Fair (748 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/uqnuiixs · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
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