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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
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
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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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Government Himself Men Oppression
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
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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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
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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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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

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