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H. L. Mencken

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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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