“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” Henry Louis Mencken
“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.” Henry Louis Mencken
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” Henry Louis Mencken
“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” Henry Louis Mencken
“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.” Henry Louis Mencken
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.” Henry Louis Mencken
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.” Henry Louis Mencken
“Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.” Henry Louis Mencken
“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.” Henry Louis Mencken
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.” Henry Louis Mencken
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.” Henry Louis Mencken
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.” Henry Louis Mencken
“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.” Henry Louis Mencken
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” Henry Louis Mencken
