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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

H. L. Mencken

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering 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
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
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
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
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
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
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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