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Law and Politics
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# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman, All Honorable Men, 1963, in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · 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."
# · Bad (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
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