H. L. Mencken

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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to…

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible…

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince…

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from…

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably…

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to…

All government, of course, is against liberty…

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely…

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their…

Honor is simply the morality of superior men…

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine…

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn’t they’d be married too…

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good…

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist…