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 United States
has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an
intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record
of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
--- H. L. Mencken
to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and
both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States
has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an
intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record
of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
--- H. L. Mencken
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- 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.
-- H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956... - What's the difference between the United States and Eastern
European countries?
The United States still has a communist party. -- Johnny Carso... - The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly
greater than that of any other animals.
Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.... - Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.... - The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective
suppo
is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way.... - Life is really just one long party.
