Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
H. L. MENCKENThe final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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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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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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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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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 common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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The 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.
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