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. MENCKENOn 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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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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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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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Change is not progress.
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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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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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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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