Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.ag/egbcyknm · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as 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/czhkruer · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
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/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/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/zxzulgcs · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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/5agdml7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lvxaopme · ★★☆☆ Fair (463 ratings) · submitted 1997
Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
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
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/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/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/16qnix2l · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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.
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