"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
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H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
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Ahh yes, but one prime example Mr. Obamunist Goodwrench the assassin.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
 -- L.P., Kirkland, WA 
Drop the almost and it's a five-star quote.
 -- Justin, Elkland		 
Why does Mike bring the current President into this? He is no more of an example than any of the others. Presidents are just flag bearers for the philosophy of their party.
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
Todays quotes are three of the best that I've seen in many a moon. All three hit the nail directly on the head.
 -- jim k, Austin,Tx		 
It's sad the color grey is "almost" missing from our intellect.
 -- Anonymous		 
Waffler, I used the current president because he is the current president. It really is too bad that your anointed puppet turned out to be such a great example of the quote. Would it make you happy if I used King George the torturer?
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Too true!! Whether from government or the church, the left or the right, history proves this true over and over. Trying to 'save' those that don't want to be saved is in essence the desire to control others. Control is de facto ownership -- someone else may 'own' something, but the one that controls it is indeed the real owner without the risk of liability.
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
You would be better served Mike by thinking large rather than be thinking small. The tendency described has been the mover of humanity for ever from Tallerand, Alexander, the Greeks, Romans etc. If I remember the latin it was Vini, Vide, Vici. soemthing like that, "I came, I saw, I conquered (controlled)". So what else is knew?
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
Waffler, OK, an expanded, or thinking larger example would be Mr. Obamunist Goodwrench, the assassin and his puppeteers, criminal clown posse, mobster czars, malefactor stars, gangster enforcement, and demonic financiers. Is that large enough or should I expand some more.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Sad that such a clever man should say such a stupid statement as it misrepresents honesty and integrity
 -- Anonymous		 
You should have included Waffler, Mike.
 -- Ken, Allyn, WA		 
What else is new Waffler? What's new is our Constitution whose founders knew that Vini, Vide, Vici was the norm for dictators and monarchs. They gave us the blueprints to avoid all this horror and we've piddly-winked it away and voted an idiot as our president and given him the keys to the kingdom (our economy). It's people like Waffler who have the mistaken idea that Utopia is possible if only the ignorant masses would just agree to live under a benevolent dictator. How many banana republic and African tin-horn dictators does it take to see how stupid this ideology is?
 -- GunnyCee, Durham, NC		 
In the same paragraph GunnyCee proclaims our Constitution and then lambasts it by attacking the freely elected government operating under it. He probably thoght the narrowly elected and Supreme Court appointed government of Bush II was some kind of great Constitutional achievement. Gunny I suugest a little patience and respect for your fellow citizens who elected the present government in a substantial relateively speaking "landslide". I support your right to be a vocal dissenter but I think you should clean of your act. What is destroying you loyal oppositionists is your anger and your irrationality. Mark my words this election is not going to be a landslide for the angry and irrational "enemies of Obama". I firmly believe that right and rationality will win this election. And it ain't on the side of the Sarah's, Rush's, Mike's and GunnyCee's. Republicans our choosing idiots like Mrs Angle in Nevada. There are some good folk on that side of the aisle, find out who they are?
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
Waffler you might have a point, but you don't...you see the current POTUS is a kenyan and is a trespasser. I don't feel we should honor the office when it is attained illegally. He is not my president.
 -- J Carlton, Calgary		 
You are a liar J! Nuff said? You live in Canada, who cares? By being disloyal in that way you are a traitor to America, The Constitution and all that it stands for. But who cares for traitors who are liars. Now an honest and decent men would upset me if they were traitors.
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
 
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