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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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Change is not progress.
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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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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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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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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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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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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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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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