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Decent Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated…
- For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and…
- The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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