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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

H. L. Mencken

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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
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
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
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

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