"[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg……" — H. L. Mencken
"[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people."
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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 Abraham Quotes
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all…
— Drew Carey
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
— Horatius Bonar
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people…
— Darrell Issa
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
— Henri Nouwen
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States…
— Aberjhani
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham,…
— Ronald Reagan
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
— John Charles Polanyi
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I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion.…
— Steven Weinberg
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We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief…
— George W. Bush
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Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to…
— Murray Rothbard
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