The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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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...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to...

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to...

The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all

The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men...

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men...

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 fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste

Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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...

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a...

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

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,...

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...