The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
H. L. MenckenSocialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.
H. L. MenckenIf there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
H. L. MenckenGood government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.
H. L. Mencken