Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

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• H. L. Mencken:

  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led

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  It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were

• H. L. Mencken:

  The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

• H. L. Mencken:

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

• H. L. Mencken:

  The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief

• H. L. Mencken:

  Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

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  Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

• H. L. Mencken:

  A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

• H. L. Mencken:

  The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the

• H. L. Mencken:

  We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respec