Mencken Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed,…
— Robert Higgs
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and…
— John Scalzi
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I love this list of quetos, in particular I like the one by H.L. Mencken, it is so true!! It is always lifting to have…
— Heavizie
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. --H. L. Mencken
— H L Mencken
Who Wrote These Mencken Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Mencken Quotes as follows: