I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
—H. L. Mencken
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.
—H.L. Mencken
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s goodbye to the Bill of Rights.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
—H. L. Mencken
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
—H. L. Mencken
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail and if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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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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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 only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
—H. L. Mencken
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
—H. L. Mencken