El Estado no es sólo fuerza. Depende de la credulidad del hombre tanto como de su docilidad.
Su objetivo no es simplemente hacer que obedezca, sino también hacer que quiera obedecer.
H L Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H L Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor: the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it worked and he wasn’t caught.
H L Mencken
El puritanismo es el temor a que alguien en alguna parte se lo esté pasando bien.
H L Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H L Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H L Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
H L Mencken
The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
H L Mencken
El puritanismo es el temor a que alguien en alguna parte se lo esté pasando bien
H L Mencken