If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. - H. L. Mencken

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.