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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: America Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 2.75  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." "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." Top 5 quotes from America "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."

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