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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
The liberty to have and hold property is not one they recognize. They believe only in the liberty to envy, hate and loot the man who has it.
No government as such is ever in favor of the freedom of the individual.
Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without.
Notes on Democracy (1926)
My literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in belief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety.
Letter to George Müller (1923)
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Misattributed