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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.
  .. The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent....
• 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....
• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencke