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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.

H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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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Death Fear Law Process Talk
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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Ideal Myself Rose
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
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
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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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman

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