Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Mencken 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 first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken

2 comments:

Borepatch said...

The Scoundrel Party. I like that - it has the ring of truth to it.

kahr40 said...

So do we take it for ourselves and if not, which of the two it would most definitely fit, get it.