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

H. L. Mencken

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
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
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
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race

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