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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H. L. Mencken

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 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
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
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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
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
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
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
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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