The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th
Henry Louis Mencken
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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