politics
“Capital, n. The seat of misgovernment.”
“Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.”
“Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
“One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression”
“Rabble, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections.”
“Quorum, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it.”
“Politician, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.”
“Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
“Patriot, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole.”
“Elector, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man’s choice.”
“Congress, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.”
“Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have.”
“Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.”
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.”
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”