H.L. Mencken

(Life magazine, August 5, 1946)

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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[go to the trouble] or [take the trouble] {v. phr.} To make trouble or extra work for yourself; bother. * /John told Mr. Brown not to go to the trouble […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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D. D. Flynn, Look magazine, 1983

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U.S. playwright, in letter to his daughter Try everything in life except incest and square dancing.