Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. MenckenWhatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.
H. L. MenckenThe most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
H. L. MenckenThe function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.
H. L. Mencken