No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
H. L. MenckenA man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
H. L. MenckenThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
H. L. Mencken