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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

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
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
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
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
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
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
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
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
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
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics

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