More From H. L. Mencken
- "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
- "If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
- "Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."
More In Freedom
- "At root fame is a sham. I’m not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don’t you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers."― Nick Mancuso
- "My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."― Fran Lebowitz
- "The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."― Thomas Carlyle