Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. MENCKENOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
-
-
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. MENCKEN -
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.
H. L. MENCKEN -
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. MENCKEN -
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. MENCKEN -
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
H. L. MENCKEN -
Change is not progress.
H. L. MENCKEN -
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. MENCKEN -
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. MENCKEN -
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. MENCKEN -
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H. L. MENCKEN -
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
H. L. MENCKEN -
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.
H. L. MENCKEN -
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
H. L. MENCKEN -
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN -
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
H. L. MENCKEN