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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

H. L. Mencken

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
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
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence

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