Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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 most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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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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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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