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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

H. L. Mencken

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
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
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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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
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
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War

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