The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
H. L. MenckenThe American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
H. L. MenckenEveryman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
H. L. MenckenWhat fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
H. L. MenckenA free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.
H. L. Mencken