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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
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
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor

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