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“I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.”

Quote by H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. Born on September 12, 1880, and passing away on January 29, 1956, Mencken is renowned for his significant contributions to American culture and language, particularly through his satirical essays and critical analyses of the American establishment. more

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“I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Happens Given Achieve Dignity Absolutes Superiors Superior Man Absolute Freedom

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“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.”

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Book:Minority Report

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“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”

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“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.”

Source: Minority Report

“The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“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.”

Government Courses Effort Refuse Resistance Organisms Diminish Extinction Refusal Prerogative

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“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'.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.”

Ugly Cigar Smokers

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“I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.”

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“If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.”

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Author:Robyn Hitchcock