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

H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money

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