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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
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 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
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women

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