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United States Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- 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…
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
- The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,…
- 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 aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it…
- What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
- The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
- To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority…
- Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
More United States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann
- When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks… — Michele Bachmann