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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
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 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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student

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