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On 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.

H. L. Mencken

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
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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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
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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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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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Government Himself Men Oppression
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics

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