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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

H. L. Mencken

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
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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
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
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
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
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
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
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
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
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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