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.
H. L. MENCKENThere are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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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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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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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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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