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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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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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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men

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