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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

H. L. Mencken

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
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 are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
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
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

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