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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Liberty

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A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

Liberty, Would Be, Favors

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Education, Learning, Liberty

The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Government, Discovery, Liberty

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

War, People, Liberty

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Men, Liberty, Arbitrary

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.69, Knopf

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Liberty, Auctions, Politics

"Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Men, Liberty, Libertarian

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.146, Vintage

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Freedom, People, Liberty

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.172, Knopf

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Men, Liberty, Arbitrary

"Minority Report".

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

Freedom, Democracy, Liberty

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

Government, Law, Liberty

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Government, Liberty, Courses

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Religion, Liberty, Morality

"A little book in C major".

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

War, Democracy, Liberty

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

Government, Liberty, Citizens

H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

Writing, Men, Liberty

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Giving, Liberty, Now And Then

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

Government, Support, Liberty

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Believe, Liberty, Humans

"Letters of H. L. Mencken". Book by Guy J. Forgue, 1961.

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