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What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and...more

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact t...more

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The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their in...more

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out...more

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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. Thi...more

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.