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Government, Time

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

- H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

- H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

- H. L. Mencken

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

- H. L. Mencken

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

- H. L. Mencken

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

- H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

- H. L. Mencken

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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

- Alfred Marshall

Government is essentially immoral.

- Herbert Spencer

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

- Alexis Herman

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

- Herbert Hoover

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

- Peter Shaffer

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

- Jackie Stewart