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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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 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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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
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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Death Fear Law Process Talk
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
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 common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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