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There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

H. L. Mencken
Government, People, Giving
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.204, Knopf

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken
Marriage, Husband, Giving
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H. L. Mencken
Editors, Common Sense, Giving

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

H. L. Mencken
Cities, Paris, Giving

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

H. L. Mencken
Giving, Liberty, Now And Then

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

H. L. Mencken
Writing, Giving, Feelings
"For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

H. L. Mencken
Dream, Women, Giving
H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

H. L. Mencken
Writing, Order, Giving

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

H. L. Mencken
Giving, Pairs, Honest
H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.99, Regnery Publishing

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

H. L. Mencken
Writing, Giving, Doe

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

H. L. Mencken
Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

H. L. Mencken
Religious, Men, Giving
Smart Set, Dec. 1920

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