"The Liberals have many tails, and chase them…" — Henry Louis Mencken
"The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all"
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Henry Louis Mencken
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58 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid,…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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