All government, of course, is against liberty.... -H. L. Mencken

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All government, of course, is against liberty.

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H. L. Mencken Quotes to Explore

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the...
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one....
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican....
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands....
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line....
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier....
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!...
The only really happy folk are married women and single men....

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The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists....
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no mat...
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad g...
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation....
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their bas...
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government....
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?...
We've listened to our businesses, and we know they want more tools online so they can do business faster - with less interaction with government....
I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings...
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of ...