| Author |
Quotes |
| H L Mencken | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. |
| H L Mencken | 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. |
| H L Mencken | 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. |
| H g Wells | The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. |
| H L Mencken | The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. |
| H L Mencken | No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic. |
| H L Mencken | War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. |
| H L Mencken | To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason. |
| H L Mencken | We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. |
| H L Mencken | The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented. |
| H L Mencken | Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. |
| H L Mencken | Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency. |
| H L Mencken | Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. |
| H L Mencken | 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. |
| H L Mencken | All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. |
| H L Mencken | The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. |
| H L Mencken | Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors. |
| H L Mencken | The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. |
| H L Mencken | he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition. |
| H L Mencken | All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man. |
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