The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high-school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
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 Image
