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

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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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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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Government Himself Men Oppression
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
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
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World

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