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Favorite H L Mencken Quotes

1. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." ~ H. L. Mencken

2. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H. L. Mencken

3. "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." ~ H. L. Mencken

4. "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." ~ H. L. Mencken

5. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ H. L. Mencken

6. "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." ~ H. L. Mencken

7. "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too." ~ H. L. Mencken

8. "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." ~ H. L. Mencken

9. "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." ~ H. L. Mencken

10. "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man." ~ H. L. Mencken

11. "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." ~ H. L. Mencken

12. "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H. L. Mencken

13. "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." ~ H. L. Mencken

14. "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H. L. Mencken

15. "Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse." ~ H. L. Mencken

16. "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." ~ H. L. Mencken

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