There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
H. L. MENCKENThe 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.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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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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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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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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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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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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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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