The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
H. L. MENCKENEvery election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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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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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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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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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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