This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil #war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world
#HLMencken

The whole aim of practical #politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
#HLMencken

Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
-- H. L. Mencken

⬆ #Quotes #HLMencken #Morality #Religion

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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adoured by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken (On Politics)

#Americans #Politics #ThePresidency #HLMencken #Quotes #Panopainting #Bot

Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken

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#Elections are futures markets in stolen property
#HLMencken

Yet behind the majority, often defectively concealed, there is always a sinister #minority, eager only for its own advantage and willing to adopt any device, however outrageous, to get what it wants
#HLMencken

#Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste
#HLMencken

#Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat
#HLMencken

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Henry Louis Mencken #HLMencken (1880 – 1956)

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Henry Louis Mencken #HLMencken (1880 – 1956)

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Henry Louis Mencken #HLMencken (1880 – 1956)

#Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
#HLMencken

It doesn't take a majority to make a #rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause
#HLMencken

Today in Labor History January 19, 1920: Crystal Eastman, Roger Nash Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (from the IWW) and others founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Their original focus was freedom of speech, primarily anti-war speech, and supporting conscientious objectors. In 1923, they defended author Upton Sinclair after he was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an IWW rally. In 1925, they persuaded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Clarence Darrow, an ACLU member, headed Scopes' legal team. The ACLU lost the case and Scopes was fined $100. In 1926, they defended H. L. Mencken, who deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned American Mercury magazine and won their first major acquittal. However, they kicked Elizabeth Gurley Flynn off their board in 1940 because of her Communist affiliations. And they refused defend Paul Robeson and other leftists in the 1950s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #communism #aclu #evolution #uptonsinclair #PaulRobeson #clarencedarrow #hlmencken @bookstadon

Any man who yields up his #liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave
#HLMencken

H.L. Mencken interview (1948)

This is one of the very few, and possibly only audio recordings of Mencken.

It was made at the Library of Congress in 1948.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QpGzpqU-b04

#HLMencken #Interviews #Writers #Authors #Journalists #LibraryOfCongress

Take it away again, mister P. T. Barnum and mister H.L. Mencken:

'There's a sucker born every minute.'

'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.'

#TrumpNFTs
#PTBarnum
#HLMencken

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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ― H.L. Mencken

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