Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
H. L. MENCKENA cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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 urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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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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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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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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