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“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
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“The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
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“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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“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
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“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.”
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“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
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“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking”
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“We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
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