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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. 
--H. L. Mencken

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, 
when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, 
Sir, I made an honest mistake. 
--H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. 
--H. L. Mencken

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, are right 
--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 (1880 - 1956)

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar 
doctrine that age brings wisdom. 
--H. L. Mencken

The men American people admire most extravagantly are the 
most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are 
those who try and tell them thetruth 
--H. L. Mencken

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

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still 
give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her. 
--Henry Louis Mencken Quotes

"Should the day ever dawn, when Jefferson's warnings are 
heeded at last, and we reduce government to its simplest terms, 
it may very well happen that Calvin's bones now resting 
inconspicuously in the Vermont granite will come to be 
revered as those of a man who really did the nation some service." 
--Henry Louis Mencken, on Coolidge's death in 1933 

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. 
--Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. 
--H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence 
--Henry Louis Mencken