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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

H. L. Mencken

The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MENCKEN

Government Politics Yourself
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
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 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
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

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