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• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
  -- H.L. Mencke...
• Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
  There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent....
• Legend --- a lie that has attained the dignity of age. -- H. L. Mencke
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight fo
  othing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself....
• We have our spasms of revolt, our flarings up of peekaboo waists, free love and "art," but a mighty backwash of piety fetches each and every one of them soon or late.
  -- H. L. Mencken, The Butte Bashkirtseff...