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H.L. Mencken11 quotes
The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. — H.L. Mencken · 1926Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor. — H.L. Mencken · 1928Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken · 1949Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H.L. Mencken · 1916Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. — H.L. Mencken · 1922Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H.L. Mencken · 1922All 11 quotes →