A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKENLove is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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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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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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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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