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

H. L. Mencken

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
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
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
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety

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