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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 (H L Mencken Quotes)
Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter (H L Mencken Quotes)
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner (H L Mencken Quotes)
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud (H L Mencken Quotes)
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly (H L Mencken Quotes)
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation (H L Mencken Quotes)
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret (H L Mencken Quotes)
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them (H L Mencken Quotes)
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent (H L Mencken Quotes)
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy (H L Mencken Quotes)
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it (H L Mencken Quotes)
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic (H L Mencken Quotes)
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime (H L Mencken Quotes)
If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say (H L Mencken Quotes)
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives (H L Mencken Quotes)
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do (H L Mencken Quotes)
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use (H L Mencken Quotes)
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense (H L Mencken Quotes)
When a woman says she won’t, it’s a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign (H L Mencken Quotes)
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend (H L Mencken Quotes)
In every woman’s life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is (H L Mencken Quotes)
I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind (H L Mencken Quotes)
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed (H L Mencken Quotes)
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege (H L Mencken Quotes)
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity (H L Mencken Quotes)
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment (H L Mencken Quotes)
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose (H L Mencken Quotes)
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails (H L Mencken Quotes)
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby (H L Mencken Quotes)