Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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All government, of course, is against liberty.

#Government, #Liberty

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely...

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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with...

#History

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

#Ideas

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

#Death And Dying, #Ideas