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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken

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 one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
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
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
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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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong

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