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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
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

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