Mencken meme posters:
Other Mencken qutoes:
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law…that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
Judge: A law student who marks his own papers.
Misogynist – A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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