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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.

H. L. Mencken

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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
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
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
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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Government Himself Men Oppression

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