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