Quotes by : H.L. Mencken

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.....

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil,....

One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious....

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of....

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most....

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.