There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
H. L. MENCKENLove is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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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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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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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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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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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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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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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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Change is not progress.
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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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