I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
Henry Louis Mencken
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient
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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
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