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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one`s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. - H.L. Mencken ... View Quote