Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the...

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the...

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort...

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort...

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party...

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

All government, of course, is against liberty.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for...

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for...

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character.

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.