Enforcing The Undemocratic Distribution Of Wealth

Using The Past To Push Personal Ideology

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
 — H. L. Mencken

Adolescence

A hormone-induced fancy-dress party.

Schoolteacher Syndrome

The smugness that arises from not being smart enough to know you're not smart.

(cf morosoph:  a fool who thinks he’s cleverer than he is.)

Triumph Of The Dill

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
 — Ambrose Bierce

Peerless Pressure

Friendless. Having no favours to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Sexism For Dummies

His Tory

Historian: Someone who uses the past as a pretext for propagating a current ideology.

States Men

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, 

as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

 — Ambrose Bierce

Mutual Self-Deception

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

 — Ambrose Bierce

Imperfect Tenderness

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Freedom

The loss of liberty is the price we pay for freedom.
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
— Ambrose Bierce

Time Heals

ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.

 — Ambrose Bierce

Faithless

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
 — Friedrich Nietzsche

Definitional Anagram

Anatidæphobia

Phlegmish Humour

Walloonphobia: fear of Walloons

Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
 — Philip K Dick

Façademocracy

An elected oligarchy fronting for an unelected plutocracy.

Thinking

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
— Don Marquis

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
— William James

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce