Quote by H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) , Henry Mencken (1880-1956) , Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

• Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

• Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.