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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
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
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
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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

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