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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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 cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
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
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
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
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student

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