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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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
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
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
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
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
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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