Tag: Henry Louis Mencken

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.

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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

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

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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.

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There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia–to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

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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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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

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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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