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.
H. L. MENCKENThe State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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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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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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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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