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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
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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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
A 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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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
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
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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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Fight Government People Wrong

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