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There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

H. L. Mencken
Differences, Voting, Made

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

H. L. Mencken
Men, Essence, Voting
"The Constitution". Baltimore Evening Sun, August 19, 1935.

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

H. L. Mencken
Law, Voting, Facts

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

H. L. Mencken
Voting, Democracy, Doctrine

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

H. L. Mencken
Fighting, Voting, Stronger
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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