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Word Hint 1: SALE
Word Hint 2: PILLAGE
Word Hint 3: SORT
First 3 words: GOVERNMENT IS A
ANSWER: GOVERNMENT IS A BROKER IN PILLAGE, AND ELECTIONS ARE A SORT OF ADVANCE AUCTION SALE OF STOLEN GOODS.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes:
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.