• “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, 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 occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” ~H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
  

• “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, 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 occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” ~H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
  

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken
  

• “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, 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 occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” ~H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
  

• “The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.” ~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
  

• “The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.” ~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
  

• “All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.” ~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
  

• “All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.” ~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
  

• “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” ~H.L. Mencken
  

• “Liberty … was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws…. There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased — freedom from the despotism of the majority.” ~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)