"The military caste did not originate as a……" — H. L. Mencken

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but… - H. L. Mencken

"The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits"

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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 Antiwar Quotes

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

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