It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
H. L. MenckenNo government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
H. L. MenckenIn any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
H. L. Mencken