H. L. Mencken Quotes

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

H. L. Mencken

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• I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Love
  • American

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Just
  • Musician
  • Producer

• Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Eating

• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Win

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • You
  • Integrity
  • Accuracy

• You need to know when to surrender the album.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • You
  • Know
  • Surrender

• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Court

• Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Better

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • History
  • Small
  • Liberals

• I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Past
  • Will

• Callender and Sally will be remembered as long as Jefferson as Blotts in his Character. The story of the latter, is a natural and almost unavoidable Consequence of that foul contagion in the human Character - Negro Slavery.

  

  John Adams
  • Long
  • Character
  • Slavery

• For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Live
  • Wind
  • Blow

• The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Funny
  • Believer
  • Bigotry

• Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Preparation

• Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Nice
  • Humanity

• I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Society

• Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Book
  • Morning
  • Red

• I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • God

• I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest.

  

  Edward Enninful

• Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

  

  James Broughton
  • People

• What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Giving
  • Community

• The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

  

  H. L. Mencken