All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.
H. L. MenckenMetaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
H. L. MenckenNext to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H. L. MenckenCapital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
H. L. Mencken