Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · 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 · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · 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/5sv6lujm · submitted 1998
Every nation has the government it deserves.
tiny.ag/vyciqzog · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
tiny.ag/bv7l94mp · submitted 1997
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/3ygthmd0 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
tiny.ag/w06shyav · 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/vdjyoa1u · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/xyjkqvgn · 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/0ssbygzn · 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.
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