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Law and Politics
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# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
# · Not So Good (27 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (29 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Lassi Kämäri (updated 1999)
Thoughts cannot be censored.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
# · Not So Good (14 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998
There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein (updated 1998)
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by James Menzies (updated 1998)
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1998
Every nation has the government it deserves.
# · Not So Good (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
# · Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (30 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.
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