Happy Birthday, H.L. Mencken

It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto, In God We Trust, were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, Verboten, substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet.

H.L. Mencken, Born on this day in 1880, from The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind