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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good (H L Mencken Quotes)
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 (H L Mencken Quotes)
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public (H L Mencken Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore (H L Mencken Quotes)
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil (H L Mencken Quotes)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary (H L Mencken Quotes)
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor (H L Mencken Quotes)
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents (H L Mencken Quotes)
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven (H L Mencken Quotes)
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the - not - worth - knowing (H L Mencken Quotes)
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates (H L Mencken Quotes)
Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer’s mare that the late Maud S. Was not dreadfully immoral (H L Mencken Quotes)
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf (H L Mencken Quotes)
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong (H L Mencken Quotes)
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve (H L Mencken Quotes)
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight (H L Mencken Quotes)
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian (H L Mencken Quotes)
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true (H L Mencken Quotes)
Theology - an effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong (H L Mencken Quotes)
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess (H L Mencken Quotes)
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot (H L Mencken Quotes)
Any man who, having a child or children he can’t support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once (H L Mencken Quotes)
Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains (H L Mencken Quotes)
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable (H L Mencken Quotes)