Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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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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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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