I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
More Quotes from H. L. Mencken:
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.H. L. Mencken
The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
H. L. Mencken
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Good & Evil Quotes, Government Quotes, Time QuotesIn the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Robert Dale Owen
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
Ron Reagan