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
to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly
succeed, and are right.
-- H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956
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