The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself #HLMencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it #HLMencken

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy #HLMencken

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic #HLMencken

Years ago I encountered a wise quote: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are

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The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong #HLMencken

The ideal government of reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone #HLMencken

A partisan is a person who puts allegiance to a political faction above principle, prudence, and perception. It is a form of tribalism, but translated to the activist realm. Parties are inevitable in a

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Anyone who has followed me here or on Facebook for any length of time will know that I am no fan of government; neither, it seems, was H.L Mencken. He knew then, as we know now, that they are filled with

Here's another quote from that wonderful Mencken book, Notes On Democracy. Published in 1926, it may as well have been published last week because nearly every quote contained therein hits home as though

...and if you think otherwise you haven't been paying attention. The government definitely does not want you to be free and making decisions for yourself. That would be a threat to their very existence.

Quite a poetic quote from Mencken today as he describes what liberty means to him. I feel like he is describing anarchy - taking responsibility for yourself, with no man or god to blame for your failures.

What's an Australian bloke writing and posting memes about a Yank with a German-sounding name for? The short to medium answer is that during my journey to Anarchy I read a lot of stuff (a hell of a lot),

This meme always seems to ruffle feathers for some reason. When I posted it over on Facebook a couple of months back it had a reach of nearly 90,000 with over 1200 shares. By way of comparison my Truth

I'm a self-confessed skeptic and I take a real evidence-based approach to everything. One of the things I love about H.L Mencken is that he doesn't sound like he was one to be fooled into believing anything