"If experience teaches us anything at all,..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

“Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.”

“God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.”

“There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.”

“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”

“As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”