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

H. L. Mencken

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
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
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
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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

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