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Aphorisms: 81 - 100 of 163 Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 »
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
A. Cygni
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
Robert Harbison
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
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.
George Bernard
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
L. R. Powell
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Unknown
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.
Unknown
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
J. A. Froude
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
Unknown
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
John Peter Zenger
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't done.
Edward Blakeman
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