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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Freedom Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.86  Rate Quote 7 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." Top 5 quotes from Freedom "It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever." "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." "Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."

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