The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.H. L. Mencken
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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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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Composed,
Government,
Humane,
Limit,
Moral,
Most,
Often,
Oppression,
Tolerant,
Top,
Very,
Worst
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