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Law and Politics

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A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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All extremists should be taken out and shot.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth — communism is the equal distribution of poverty.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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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, in Law and Politics

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Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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People do not resist change — they resist being changed.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

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Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

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Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

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When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

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