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All government, of course, is against liberty.

H. L. Mencken

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Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

H. L. Mencken

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

Tags: Love Democracy To Love

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

H. L. Mencken

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

H. L. Mencken

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

H. L. Mencken

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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

H. L. Mencken

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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

H. L. Mencken

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

Tags: Who Than Will

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

H. L. Mencken

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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

Tags: Politics Them Keep

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

H. L. Mencken

Tags: People Think Just

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

H. L. Mencken

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