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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

H. L. Mencken

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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
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
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 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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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money

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