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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

H. L. Mencken

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time

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