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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
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
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money

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