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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

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
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
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
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 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
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor

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