A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. MENCKENA sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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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.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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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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Change is not progress.
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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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