A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. MENCKENA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. MENCKENThere are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
H. L. MENCKENOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. MENCKENMost people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. MENCKENThe only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
H. L. MENCKENThe average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
H. L. MENCKENIn this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. MENCKENThe only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
H. L. MENCKENLaws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
H. L. MENCKENThe kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
H. L. MENCKENThe central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
H. L. MENCKENDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. MENCKENThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
H. L. MENCKENWhen somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
H. L. MENCKENA sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
H. L. MENCKENThere are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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