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.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.