QUOTE A DAY - October 28, 2014

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Just the quotes...

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
--HL Mencken

How does so much [false news] get into the American newspapers, even the good ones? Is it because journalists, as a class, are habitual liars, and prefer what is not true to what is true?
--HL Mencken

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
--HL Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
(1920-1936), p. 279


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
They who seek nothing but their own liberty, have always the right to win it... be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
--HL Mencken

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
--HL Mencken

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

They who seek nothing but their own liberty, have always the right to win it... be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

ANSWER: John Milton (as quoted in 'Road to Serfdom')

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