Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney’s office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place.
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for someone to complain to.
Those who have competence in some measure… are the only human beings I can think of who will be worth the oil it will take to fry them in hell.
Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to […]
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
Communists have no more humor than Christians. No man who believes in apocalypses can possibly bring himself to laugh.
I certainly agree with your feeling about the Communists and Fascists, though I fear I can’t follow your into the arms of (the) Holy Church. All persons who propose to improve the human race seem to me to be equally fraudulent.
