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Henry Louis Mencken has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
— Duke Robillard
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady…
— Marty Stuart
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
— Freddy Fender
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Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
— Loretta Lynn
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We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.
— Blake Shelton
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My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
— Dwight Yoakam
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a…
— Lance Burton
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Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself,…
— Tex Ritter
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Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
— Marty Stuart
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There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague…
— Chris Isaak
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
— Loretta Lynn
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Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
— Brad Paisley
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