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P.J. O'Rourke has 585 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of…
— Grover Cleveland
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You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.
— Jay Leno
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I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it…
— John McCain
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As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose…
— Jack Donovan
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God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of…
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop…
— Jan Brewer
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