Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
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. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
