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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H. L. Mencken

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
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
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
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 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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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

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