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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
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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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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

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