Ruling – Page 40 – Everything

Ruling

In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?

Apr 182013
 

The people are flattered more obsequiously than the monarch ever was.

Feb 272013
 

The great problem in political science is how to persuade the people to elect a government of which the theorist approves.

Jan 092013
 

Men can always be found to do the king’s bidding without asking so much as the king’s shilling in return.

Jan 012013
 

Legality is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Dec 072012
 

Fiat justitia will assuredly result in pereat mundus.

Nov 052012
 

The practicing capitalist is a capitalist; the practicing anarchist is a terrorist; the practicing socialist is a thief.

Oct 222012
 

Stare decisis is an infinite regress error.

Oct 092012
 

Men form alliances first not to be stolen from, and then to steal.