Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
H. L. MENCKENNo professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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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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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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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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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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