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- Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- #3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3528. The law respects form less than substance.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- #1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
- California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract"
- An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.
- Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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