Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise ... -H. L. Mencken

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the...
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican....
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands....
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line....
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop....
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier....
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!...
The only really happy folk are married women and single men....

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....