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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
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Humor Justice Passion Patriot Presence
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
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

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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