Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/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/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/kge2ejcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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/o2nztemh · ★★☆☆ Fair (180 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/4rllto8y · ★★☆☆ Fair (778 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Felton Davis, Jr.
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
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.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (838 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/2hab70fi · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.
tiny.ag/lanadgxk · ★★☆☆ Fair (144 ratings) · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
tiny.ag/3ygthmd0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
tiny.ag/s0wufote · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1997
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/czhkruer · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (717 ratings) · submitted 1997
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · ★★☆☆ Fair (800 ratings) · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
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