No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.


33 - Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

H. L. Mencken Quotes

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,...

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,...

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,...

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,...