The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
H. L. MenckenPopularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
H. L. MenckenThe only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
H. L. MenckenNext to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H. L. MenckenA government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.
H. L. Mencken