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H.L. Mencken, Minority Report Quotes: The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
         

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.


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