Milesian Who's Who -- Henry Lewis "H.L." Mencken

Milesian Who’s Who

Henry Lewis “H.L.” Mencken

1880 — 1956

American Writer

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth . . . It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

Nobel Prize Winner

Exceptional People

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