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H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
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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.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don΄t want to meet them.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.



Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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