H.L. Mencken

Liberty Quotation of the Day: H.L. Mencken on the Urge to Save Humanity

Quote Posted on May 13, 2014 Updated on May 13, 2014

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.”

H.L. Mencken, Minority Report [1956]

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