Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

H. L. Mencken's Popular Quotes

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

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If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

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There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

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The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon…

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Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di…

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One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

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The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

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