The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
H. L. MENCKENThere’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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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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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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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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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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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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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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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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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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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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