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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance

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