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.
H. L. MENCKENNo 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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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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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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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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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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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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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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