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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

H. L. Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
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 State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote

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