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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

H. L. Mencken

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’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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

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