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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
depth, length, width, widths
«Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
common good, common people
«I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, forms, necessarily, On Liberty
«Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
ashamed, decent, the government
«I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
improve, largely, waste of time
«For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Problems,
Simplicity,
Solution
| Keywords:
clean, solution
«The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
constitute, constituting, satisfactory, steadily, support, tendency, The Natural
«Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
as yet, secure, self-respecting, self respect, suspicious
