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• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. -- H.L. Mencke
• The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -- H. L. Mencke
• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
  L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim...
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...