Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/64hrko9k · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · 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 · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · 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/if7zb5ls · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/kge2ejcq · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
tiny.ag/c3fgjq70 · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
tiny.ag/v1p3a7wp · submitted 1997
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", Harvard Law Review, vol. 32, pp. 932–957 (1919), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/2hab70fi · 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 · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
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