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

H. L. Mencken

There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
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.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching 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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World

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