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• Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
  The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young....
• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details.
  It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience....
• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
  Maria Calla...
• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels.
  For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all....
• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
  .. The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent....
• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
  Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics....