"The university president who cashiered every professor..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

“Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”

“The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.”

“Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.”

“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”

“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”

“The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.”

“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”