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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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