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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
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
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
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
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
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
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
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
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety

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