On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKENPuritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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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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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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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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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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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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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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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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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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