Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/5sv6lujm · submitted 1998
Every nation has the government it deserves.
tiny.ag/bv7l94mp · submitted 1997
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
tiny.ag/vyciqzog · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
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/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/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/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/1kbmhsw6 · 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/bjyoe8up · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
tiny.ag/k5imoxc2 · submitted 1997
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/xenm7mq9 · submitted 1997
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
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