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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

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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
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
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
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 most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking

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