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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 demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
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
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value

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

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