Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.


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

H. L. Mencken Quotes

Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not...

Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not...

Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not...

Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not...