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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
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 most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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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Government Himself Men Oppression
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
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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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women

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