H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.