H. L. Mencken Quotes

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

It's not my job to force people to believe things.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Man must choose his world

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.

My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me. If you don't like my fire, then don't come around, 'cause I'm gonna burn one down. Yes, I'm gonna burn one down. Herb the gift from the earth, And what's from the earth is of the greatest worth. So before you knock it try it first, Oh, you'll see it's a blessing and not a curse.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.