H L Mencken quotes

" Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard. " # Democracy # Common Sense # Theory

" The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. " # Power

" The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. " # Money # Happiness # Life and Living

" Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. " # Voting # Christians and Christianity # Freedom

" Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. " # Puritans # Fear # Happiness

" Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. " # Conscience

" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. " # Age and Aging # Wisdom # Familiarity

" Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. " # Truth # Fiction # Life and Living

" A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. " # Cynics and Cynicism # Fear # Flowers

" A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. " # Fame