"The trouble with fighting for human freedom..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“Every man is his own hell.”

“It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.”

“As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.”

“It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.”

“Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.”

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”

“It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”