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

H. L. Mencken

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics

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