“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”
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H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), an American journalist, essayist, and satirist.
He is particularly famous for his mocking coverage of the Scopes Trial which Mencken nicknamed “The Monkey Trial” where a high school teacher was convicted for teaching human evolution in a Tennessee public school.
