Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. MENCKENAlways remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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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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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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