When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
H. L. MENCKENWhen somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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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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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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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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