Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
H. L. MENCKENA church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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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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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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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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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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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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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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