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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

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
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
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
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
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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
Change is not progress.
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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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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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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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