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

H. L. Mencken

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
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
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.
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Fight Government People Wrong
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right

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