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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”

H. L. Mencken

There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
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
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
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
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

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