After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
H. L. MENCKENA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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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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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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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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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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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.
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