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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

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
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
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
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
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
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
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
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
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
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
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

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