H. L. Mencken Quotes About Heaven

• Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sunday, Heaven, Wish

  "A little book in C major".

• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Heaven

  "A Little Book in C Major".

• It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

  H. L. Mencken

  Powerful, Inspiration, Years

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

• Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heaven, Tickets, Agnostic

• The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heaven, Speak, Instant

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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