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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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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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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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