The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. - H. L. Mencken
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
- H. L. Mencken
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself - H. L. Mencken
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats. - H. L. Mencken
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged. - H. L. Mencken
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon… - H. L. Mencken
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon…
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di… - H. L. Mencken
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di…
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. - H. L. Mencken
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good. - H. L. Mencken
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H. L. Mencken
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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