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H. L. Mencken

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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 chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
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
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay

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