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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.

H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
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
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote

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