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Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan

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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…
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

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