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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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