The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. - H. L. Mencken

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

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About H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.

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