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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

H. L. Mencken

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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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
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
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
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
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
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
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save 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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True

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