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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.”

—H.L. Mencken

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“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”

-H.L. Mencken

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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

- H.L. Mencken

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“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

- H.L. Mencken

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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

- H. L. Mencken

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"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."

— H. L. Mencken

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.

- H. L. Mencken

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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

- H. L. Mencken

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"Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening to men without snickering."

— H. L. Mencken

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“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”

-H.L.Mencken

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“Should the day ever dawn when Jefferson’s warnings are heeded at last, and we reduce government to its simplest terms, it may very well happen that Calvin’s bones now resting inconspicuously in the Vermont granite will come to be revered as those of a man who really did the nation some service.”

-H.L. Mencken, on Calvin Coolidge

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

-H. L. Mencken

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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.

-H. L. Mencken

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“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

― H.L. Mencken

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“For every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

-H. L. Mencken

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"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

-H.L. Mencken

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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it."

- H.L. Mencken
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