Quotes by : H. L. Mencken

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.....

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.....

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard....

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal....

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived....

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle....