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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power 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
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety

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