Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/1kbmhsw6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (707 ratings) · submitted 1997
In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
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/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/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/sl9dtwjl · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
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/4yehmrsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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/mj0tyu5v · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Lassi Kämäri
Thoughts cannot be censored.
tiny.ag/4oqnfdf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
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/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/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
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