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Government Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government…
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- 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…
- Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives…
- 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…
- 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…
- All government, of course, is against liberty.
- A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
- Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy…
- It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all…
- [T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
- The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of…
- Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None…
- Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
- Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,…
- Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far…
- Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks…
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida