Quote #96
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
More from H. L. Mencken
- A sandwich made up of two thick and tasteless chunks of Kriegsbrot with a couple of excellent sardines between.
- Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many…
- A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromise…
- Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- Mencken's [very widely attributed, as yet unsourced] pat response to all angry letters:
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
- Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.