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.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

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

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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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