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Law and Politics
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# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Vote early and vote often.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
# · Not So Good (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
# · Not So Good (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
# · Not So Good (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997 ·
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
# · Not So Good (10 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.
# · Not So Good (6 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
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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