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American Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they…
- All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush…
- The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
- The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in…
- I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It…
- If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory…
- The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in…
- Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
- It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
- To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as…
- He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
- If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But…
- It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
- Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an…
- American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
- The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell…
- It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either…
- There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca