Quotes by : H.L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is....

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human....

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless.....

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young....

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field....

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect....