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- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Notes on Democracy, 1926
- Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- 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 (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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