The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
H. L. MenckenThat it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.
H. L. MenckenWhen you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
H. L. MenckenNo professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
H. L. Mencken