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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

H. L. Mencken

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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics

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