In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken – Patriotism
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H.L. Mencken – Mankind
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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H.L. Mencken – For every human problem
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
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H.L. Mencken – Human Freedom
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one\’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
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H.L. Mencken – Conscience is the inner voice
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations
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H.L. Mencken – Unquestionably
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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H.L. Mencken – Under Democracy
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.
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H.L. Mencken – The World
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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