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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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
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
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 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
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
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
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World

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