Quote(s) of the day: H.L. Mencken

The Agitator has collected a bunch of H.L. Mencken quotes (some of which I'd never seen. . .and I've read a lot of his writings), including:

On Congress:
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

On post-reductio America:
Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

On Guantanamo Bay:
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Hat tip to Jay Jardine.