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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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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Ideal Myself Rose
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
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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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World

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