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.
H. L. MENCKENIf a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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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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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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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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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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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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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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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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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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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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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