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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

H. L. Mencken

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
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
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
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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War

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