H. L. Mencken Belief Quotations

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse