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[Quote No.41317] Need Area: Money > Tax
"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 of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant or pine for something they can’t get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42043] Need Area: Money > Tax
"There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties!" - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.7268] Need Area: Friends > Partners
"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
" - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.7269] Need Area: Friends > Partners
"A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.
" - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.41351] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[H.L. Mencken often used to tactfully reply to letters criticizing him for something he had done or written:] 'Dear Sir, There may well be much in what you have to say. Sincerely. [In fact the phrase is almost an all purpose, diplomatic reply, in that it could be used in almost any situation, without offending anyone, while neither agreeing nor disagreeing.]" - H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956), Henry Louis 'H.L.' Mencken, known as the 'Sage of Baltimore,' was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.
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[Quote No.30877] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state - or, to make matters more concrete, the government - consists of a gang of men [and women] exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods. [Therefore a government's ability to bribe any segment of the community, needs to be removed, as promoted by libertarianism, by removing government's powers beyond those required for enforcing freedom and property rights, leaving the rest up to each individual to choose from a competitive free market or philanthropy.]" - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.32635] Need Area: Friends > General
"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." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.32648] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians and citizens should remember] The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.32659] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.33119] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of [immoral] practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.34123] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.34186] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.35508] Need Area: Friends > General
"A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them [that only his/her government can provide]." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.37256] Need Area: Friends > General
"The government consists of a gang of men [and women] exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant or pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.41294] Need Area: Friends > General
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' " - H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956), writer, editor, and critic
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[Quote No.41318] Need Area: Friends > General
"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 of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant or pine for something they can’t get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods!" - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.41594] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.41809] Need Area: Friends > General
"Most people want security in this world, not liberty [not realising that that is one step closer to slavery for themselves and those they love. Freedom is necessary for security because true security only comes from knowing how to make the most of freedom, not by giving that responsibility to someone else, who doesn't care for you and those you love as much as you do]." - H.L. Mencken
'Minority Report', 1956.
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[Quote No.42041] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42042] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42044] Need Area: Friends > General
"There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42045] Need Area: Friends > General
"The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42046] Need Area: Friends > General
"The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42047] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air - that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club [force] is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42048] Need Area: Friends > General
"The [omnipotent] state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men [and women]." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.42049] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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"The state - or, to make matters more concrete, 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 of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.47478] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The reason government engages in censorship and propaganda is because they fear losing control of the behaviour of the population and therefore their own power, position and ideology. They understand that...] The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions or taboos [and then influence others, therefore the easiest way to control this person is to control the information they have and failing that to discredit, lock up or ultimately 'dispose' of them. The reason the legal right to freedom of speech and association is considered necessary by the wise is to guard against those in power, regardless of their political persuasion, abusing their power over other human beings]." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.47963] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of [power-hungry] practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [about a 'crisis'] and hence, clamorous to be led to safety [by a 'benevolent' political leadership, that needs more freedom and power for them and less for you to address the crisis]- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.50859] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics [i.e. taking and using power] is to keep the populace alarmed [fearful] (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with [hype, disinformation and propaganda about] an endless series of hobgoblins, [nearly] all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.55803] Need Area: Friends > General
"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 act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed [freedom-supporting, peaceful], industrious and decent men [and women]." - H.L. Mencken
Quoted in 1926.
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[Quote No.62850] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Libertarianism:] For what democracy needs most of all...beyond everything is a party of liberty." - H.L. Mencken
'Notes on Democracy', 1926.
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[Quote No.63538] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state -- or, to make matters more concrete, the government -- consists of a gang of men [and women] exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.67045] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Propaganda; politicians often use fear to control people:] A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion [to and] ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them." - H.L. Mencken
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for..." - H.L. Mencken
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