The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins...

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins...

All government, of course, is against liberty.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy -...

And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy -...

All government, of course, is against liberty.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he...

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to...

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to...

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true....

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true....

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion...

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

Strong women leave big hickies

Strong women leave big hickies