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Public Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
- When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated…
- The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties
- Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are…
- The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit…
- The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of…
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me…
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever…
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- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet