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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.

H. L. Mencken

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
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
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
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
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
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
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

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