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H. L. Mencken — Portrait after a picture by Ben Pinchot (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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H. L. Mencken

American journalist and writer

1880–1956

63 quotes, most often on Government, Politics and Clever Jabs. Part of the Writers collection.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
- America
- Politics
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.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
Socialism is the theory that the desire of one man to get something he hasn’t got is more pleasing to a just God than the desire of some other man to keep what he has got.
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 51
- Economics
- Politics
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob’s fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and coloured and put into cans.
Notes on Democracy (1926)
- Politics

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