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.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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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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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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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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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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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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