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Quote from H. L. Mencken,


"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable
are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."


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H. L. Mencken (more quotes by H. L. Mencken or books by/about H. L. Mencken)


(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

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Freedom, Government, Law, Liberty, Power, Responsibility, Statism, Tyranny

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