A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKENThe demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable 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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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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.
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Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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