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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

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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
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
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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 State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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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