Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. MENCKENThe ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Change is not progress.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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The 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.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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