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.
H. L. MENCKENDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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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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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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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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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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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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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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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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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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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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