"God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is…" — H. L. Mencken
"God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Claus Quotes
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one of 153 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
— Karen Armstrong
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
— Victor Borge
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
— Samuel Butler
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy…
— W.C. Fields
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa…
— Bobby Knight
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
— William Feather
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If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a…
— Jack Handey
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa…
— Al Smith
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One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was…
— Dennis Franz
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Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few…
— Robert E. Lee
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