Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken
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More quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.