There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
M encken gives good quote.
Unlike the familiar Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , which is organized by author in a rough chronological order, Mencken orders his quotations into categories by subject, which allows you to find all the familiar sayings on a topic in one place. Mencken and Jean Nathan's Smart Set magazine was known for its pithy epigrams. They were so popular that the magazine was selling them to be shown in movie theaters to entertain the audience until the feature was shown. Mencken's epigrammatic style owes a tremendous debt to the philosophy of Nietsche and the style of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary . An athiest's selection of Mencken on and against organized religion.