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• Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• A prohibitionist is someone one wouldn't want to drink with, even if he did drink.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
  It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel" - H.
  L. Mencke...
• Christendom is that part of the world where, if a man declare himself to be a Christian, his hearers laugh at him.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
  -- H. L. Mencke...