If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. MENCKENThe 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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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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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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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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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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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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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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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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