The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them th… - H. L. Mencken

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism — beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ever subscribed to by mortal man, whether in or out of the African bush.

The effort to put down Christian Science by law is one of the craziest enterprises upon which medical men waste their energies. It is based upon a superstition even sillier than that behind Christian Science itself: to wit, the superstition that, when an evil shows itself, all that is needed to dispose of it is to pass a law against it.

A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.