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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.

H. L. Mencken

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
The 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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Fight Government People Wrong
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
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
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
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
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
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself

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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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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