I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
H. L. MenckenCapitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.
H. L. MenckenMy guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H. L. MenckenThe way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
H. L. Mencken