"I have long been convinced that the..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.”

“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted”

“As government grows, freedom recedes.”

“For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree”

“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.”

“The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, requirethat force should be interposed to a certain degree.”

“How can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.”

“The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.”