H. L. Mencken Quotes
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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