A Republic, if you can keep it

[Vexari]

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities

it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret

it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion

its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot

But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men..


~ H. L. Mencken ~ (1880-1956)

American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic