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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 final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
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
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
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
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
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
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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