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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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
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
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
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
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World

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