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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

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
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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
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 judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value

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