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

H. L. Mencken

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
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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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War

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