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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
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
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
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
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
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong

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