The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MENCKENThe common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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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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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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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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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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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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