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- You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
- It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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