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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
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
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
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
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
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
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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 kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men

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