H. L. Mencken
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  • Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

  • We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  • It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  • Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.