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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

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
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
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
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
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare

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