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Baltimore Evening Sun (12 Feb 1923) - Mencken, H. L. | WIST Quotations
The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It…