When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.
H. L. MenckenSave among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
H. L. MenckenThe chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
H. L. MenckenIn every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
H. L. Mencken