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H. L. Mencken: “I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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H. L. Mencken: “Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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H. L. Mencken: “If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
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H. L. Mencken: “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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H. L. Mencken: “Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nonetheless, calmly licking its chops.
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H. L. Mencken: “We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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H. L. Mencken: “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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H. L. Mencken: “Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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H. L. Mencken: “The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
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H. L. Mencken: “A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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H. L. Mencken: “It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
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H. L. Mencken: “In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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H. L. Mencken: “As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”  more
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H. L. Mencken: “Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
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H. L. Mencken: “Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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H. L. Mencken: “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
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H. L. Mencken: “I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
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H. L. Mencken: “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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H. L. Mencken: “Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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H. L. Mencken: “Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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H. L. Mencken: “Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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H. L. Mencken: “To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”  more
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H. L. Mencken: “A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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H. L. Mencken: “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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