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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
an American, attorney, attorneys, congressman, congressmen, district, districts, district attorney, jealous, liberties, promoted, The District, Washington
«Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
beset, besets, besetting, fundamentalism, Goethe, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, roaring
«The lunatic fringe wags the underdog»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lunatic, underdog, underdogs, wags
«A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
a couple of, baptism, campaign, circus, hangings, political campaign
«The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
competition, Meet The, newspapers, papers, radio
«The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, caste, castes, Party of, patriots, The Military
«Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
characteristic, concluded, Nietzsche, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, questioned, tendency, unchanged, wherefore
«Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.»
