Loading ...“In any dispute between a citizen and the government, it is my instinct to side with the citizen. I am against bureaucrats, policemen,
wowsers, snouters, smellers, uplifters, lawyers, bishops and all other sworn enemies of the free man. I am against all efforts to make men
virtuous by law. I believe that the government, practically considered, is simply a camorra of incompetent and mainly dishonest men,
transiently licensed to live by the labor of the rest of us. I am thus in favor of limiting its powers as much as possible, even at the cost of
considerable inconvenience, and of giving every citizen, wise or foolish, right or wrong, the right to criticize it freely, and to advocate changes
in its constitution and personnel…..”
[“Autopsy,” American Mercury, September 1927] by H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)