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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.

H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
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
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material 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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
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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