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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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
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
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
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
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
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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

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