Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share
