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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

H. L. Mencken

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
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
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay

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