1,045 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor’s son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor.

I’m ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-by to the Bill of Rights.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I’ll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we’d all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.