On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
H. L. MenckenExperience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
H. L. MenckenI 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. Mencken