Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

—H. L. Mencken

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Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also earned him...

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

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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 first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

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The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

—G. K. Chesterton

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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