H. L. Mencken - Famous Quotes
H. L. MenckenI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
(H. L. Mencken US editor 1880 - 1956)
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
(H. L. Mencken US editor 1880 - 1956)
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 US editor 1880 - 1956)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
(H. L. Mencken US editor 1880 - 1956)
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
(H. L. Mencken US editor 1880 - 1956)
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
(H. L. Mencken)