Henry Louis Mencken Quotes

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

- Henry Louis Mencken

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The idea that (school-children) are happy is of a piece with the idea that the lobster in the pot is happy. - Henry Louis Mencken

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men. - Henry Louis Mencken

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. - Henry Louis Mencken