James Barbaro

“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
― H. L. Mencken

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Given surgery at an army hospital, Tojo recovered and was detained at Sugamo Prison, where he was also given a new set of dentures. The American dentist who cast them arranged for “Remember Pearl Harbor” to be written on his teeth in Morse code.”
― Craig Nelson, Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness