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

H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
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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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
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
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
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
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War

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