The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.
It remains impossible… to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mysterious merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale – that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a kind of superiority.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. This is like saying that the cure for crime is more crime.
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y.
