Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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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 final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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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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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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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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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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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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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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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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