"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." ― H. L. Mencken Topic(s): Government Tags: ashamed, decent, every More From H. L. Mencken "When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands." "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." "We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." More In Government "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."― Ronald Reagan "An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."― Voltaire "Government is dysfunctional."― Michael Bloomberg
