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

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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
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
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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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War

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