It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. MENCKENThere are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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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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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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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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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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