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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy! -
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -
990Whenever 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
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. -
769The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. H.L. Mencken
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 12 years ago.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. -
767Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H.L. Mencken
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -
847Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. H.L. Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. -
837To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H.L. Mencken
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! -
860The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. H.L. Mencken
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of... -
824The 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
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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... -
919The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H.L. Mencken
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and... -
800The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. H.L. Mencken
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 12 years ago.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -
741The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H.L. Mencken
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -
767The men the American public 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
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -
805The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. H.L. Mencken
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent... -
876The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. H.L. Mencken
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. -
716The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H.L. Mencken
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 12 years ago.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. -
649The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H.L. Mencken
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.