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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.
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Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
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[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
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The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
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The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
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Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
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If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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