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H. L. Mencken76 quotes“A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.”
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken In 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. MenckenH. L. Mencken A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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