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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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 one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
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
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands 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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
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
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
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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
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
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time

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