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“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
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“A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.”
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“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”
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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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“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
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“We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas”
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“Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking”
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“The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it”
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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
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“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”
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