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Law and Politics
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
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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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à-tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces.
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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
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