Quotes - HL Mencken

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that
one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels.
For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws
are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at
the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- HL Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his
hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken

"After all, all he did was string together
a lot of old, well-known quotations."
- H. L. Mencken

A poet more than thirty years old
is simply an overgrown child.
- HL Mencken

"A judge is a law student who marks
his own examination papers."
- H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that
warns us somebody may be looking.
- HL Mencken