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Results of search for Author: H. L. Mencken - Page 2 of 3 Showing results 11 to 20 of 22 total quotations found.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Notes on Democracy, 1926
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
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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 (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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