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

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Every man is his own hell.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Life is a dead-end street.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.