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H.L. Mencken Quotes

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #1

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #2

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. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #3

Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #4

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. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #5

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #6

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #7

JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #8

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #9

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken -- Quote #10

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -- H.L. Mencken

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