H. L. Mencken Quotes about Peace

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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, Freedom, War

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, War, Limits

"The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, Freedom, War

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken

Baby, Peace, War

'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, War, Fighting

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, War, Mean

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.22, Knopf

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

H. L. Mencken

Peace, War, Moral

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

H. L. Mencken

Peace, Determination, War