Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
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/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/vdjyoa1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
tiny.ag/e5isa1rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
tiny.ag/c3jsrgej · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
tiny.ag/7pr2vmql · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Edward Wayne Blakeman
Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't done.
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/16qnix2l · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/sp9ytcxh · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/vkpbru1q · ★★☆☆ Fair (292 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1183 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/zcjracxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
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