If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
H. L. MenckenThe music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H. L. MenckenPublic opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.
H. L. MenckenI believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.
H. L. Mencken