"It is almost as safe to assume..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”

“It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.”

“Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.”

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”

“I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.”

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”

“For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”

“A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.”

“The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.”