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.
H. L. MENCKENThe only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Change is not progress.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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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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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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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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