H. L. Mencken Quotes

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Power
  • Exercise

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Judge
  • Vote
  • Presidential

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Society
  • Law

• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Law
  • Rule

• Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Think
  • Judge

• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Drama
  • Student
  • Suits

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Art
  • She

• I love Thai boat noodles: They are kind of like pho, but with a very hearty broth. I will make the broth and just do no noodles and more bean sprouts. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, so I just get rid of as many carbs as possible that go into it.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Boat

• In law school, I never understood antitrust law. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • Law
  • Reading

• 'The Daily Show' took a topic - politics - which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe 'Bill Nye Saves the World' can do the same for science.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Culture
  • Literature

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
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