H. L. Mencken Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
Birthday: September 12
Death: January 29
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.
source: H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.45, Read Books Ltd
topic: Order, Law, Evil, Libertine, Police Power
