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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise

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