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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
  -- H.L. Mencke...
• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
  It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencke...
• Every man sees in his relatives a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencke
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices", Series iii...
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
  -- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American -- H. L. Mencke...
• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered
  there is only error to be exposed. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...