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H. L. Mencken Quotes

American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

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.

Thankful Politics I Am Me World Sin

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Crazy Newspaper Ignorant More Making

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

Mother-In-Law Never Conscience Whose

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Ocean Man Mind Search You Way

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Wisdom Age Grow More Distrust Older

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.

Beautiful Children Respect Wife Must

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Humanity Always False Rule Almost

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Relationship Man Cousins Relatives

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Fear Happy Be Happy Someone May

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Woman Man Looking Someone Shoulder

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Man Government Think Dangerous Out

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Good People Democracy Know Want Get

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