It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. MENCKENA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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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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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Change is not progress.
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