Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Time stays, we go.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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

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

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.