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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

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
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
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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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
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
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics

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