H.L. Mencken, America’s Wittiest Defender of Liberty

http://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/h-l-mencken-americas-wittiest-defender-of-liberty/

“The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life,” Mencken declared. “When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.”