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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H. L. Mencken

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
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
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
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
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
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 demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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