There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
H.L. MenckenTags: language chinese portuguese american-english
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. MenckenI believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H.L. MenckenTags: life truth human-nature
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H.L. MenckenTags: opera
New York: A third-rate Babylon.
H.L. MenckenTags: new-york-city
Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands.
H.L. MenckenTags: thought irony clichés freethought human-race
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...
H.L. MenckenTags: thought government
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H.L. MenckenNever drink before sunset; Never drink more than 3 days in a row.
H.L. MenckenPublish and be damned.
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