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H. L. Mencken

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


— H. L. Mencken


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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.


— H. L. Mencken


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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.


— H. L. Mencken


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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.


— H. L. Mencken


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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


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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.


— H. L. Mencken


#discover #happily #her #how #man

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.


— H. L. Mencken


#imagination #intelligence #love is #over #triumph

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


— H. L. Mencken


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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.


— H. L. Mencken


#best #better #campaign #circus #couple

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.


— H. L. Mencken


#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics






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The marriage made national headlines and many were surprised that Mencken who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes had gone to the altar. In 1926 he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury that was banned in Boston under the Comstock laws.

A keen cheerleader of scientific progress he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism bigotry populism fundamentalist Christianity creationism organized religion the existence of God and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. Henry Louis "H. During and after World War I he was sympathetic to the Germans and was very distrustful of British propaganda.

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