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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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