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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Every man is his own hell.

Author : H. L. Mencken

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Author : H. L. Mencken

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Author : H. L. Mencken

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Author : H. L. Mencken

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.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Author : H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Author : H. L. Mencken