Former journalist, writer and editor of The Baltimore Sun, most famous for his dozens of timeless quotes, would be 125 years young today.
In honor of his memory, here are a few of my favorite 'Menckenisms":
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right. I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.[updated to correct spelling... thanks "Eagle Eye" Monk =)]
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