Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
H. L. MenckenWhen I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
H. L. MenckenWe must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
H. L. MenckenWhat reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?
H. L. Mencken