Long Ago I Proposed That Unsuccessful Candidates For The Presidency Be Quietly Hanged, As A Matter Of Public Sanitation And Decorum.

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• Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
  The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young....
• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false.
  But there are no certainties. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudice...
• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -- H. L. Mencke
• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amuseme
  compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling....
• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), 1951...