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My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

H. L. Mencken
Profound, Effort, Speech
H.L. Mencken (2011). “My Life as Author and Editor”, p.29, Vintage

Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

H. L. Mencken
Art, Government, Effort
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.207, Knopf

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

H. L. Mencken
Knowing, Effort, Literature

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

H. L. Mencken
Conceited, Reality, Effort

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken
Believe, Effort, Political
H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

H. L. Mencken
Mother, Science, Effort
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.248, Knopf

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

H. L. Mencken
Government, Effort, Resistance
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.204, Knopf

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