Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/mb7skahf · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/xenm7mq9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · 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/qe9sruc8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
tiny.ag/ocm1aexh · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman, All Honorable Men, 1963, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/4liye13x · ★★☆☆ Fair (828 ratings) · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
tiny.ag/cuh1ej24 · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
tiny.ag/7graufwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1408 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (900 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1058 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · ★★☆☆ Fair (2924 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/r3qhocip · ★★☆☆ Fair (917 ratings) · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
tiny.ag/nbd9g5v4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1242 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/cme83vbu · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
I'm left on the right issues and right on what's left. Now that's an issue I left right in front of you to debate.
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