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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
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
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
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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
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
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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

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