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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

H. L. Mencken

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
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
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

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