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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War

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