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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
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
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 theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay

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