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H. L. Mencken

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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