"Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.”

“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”

“Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.”

“Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.”

“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hearOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”

“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”

“Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.”

“I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more about that president's record than your vision for the future, and I think that the Democrats do have to present a proactive agenda and vision for the country and not simply run against something if they're going to be successful.”

“We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.”