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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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
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
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
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
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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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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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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