Change is not progress.
H. L. MENCKENThe American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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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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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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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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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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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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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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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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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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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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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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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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