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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

H. L. Mencken

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
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
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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

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