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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

There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
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.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value

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