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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken

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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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