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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
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 State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
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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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
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

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