"No government is ever really in favor..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.”

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

“Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.”

“The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”

“Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.”

“People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.”

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”

“Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.”

“The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.”