Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
H. L. MenckenEvery lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.
H. L. MenckenThe only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob
H. L. Mencken