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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H. L. Mencken

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
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
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women

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