H. L. Mencken Quotes About Affairs

• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

• A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Mind, His Love

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.16, Vintage

• There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, People, Giving

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.204, Knopf

• Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Women, Wife

• It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Community, Healthy

• A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Would Be, Favors

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