Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
H. L. MENCKENSocialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Change is not progress.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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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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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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