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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

H. L. Mencken

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
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
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
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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 man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics 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
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics

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