The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
H. L. MENCKENThe kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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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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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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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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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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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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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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