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.
H. L. MENCKENA professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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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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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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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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