[SomeoneNeedsToSayIt]

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."[H. L. Mencken]

[Vigilanteman]

Love your H. L. Mencken quote! That guy was a national treasure.

[CatoRenasci]

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard; the theory that two thieves will steal less than one, three less than two, four less than three and so on....

Mencken & Nathan in The Jazz Webster in A Book of Burlesques.

[supremedoctrine]

Every time I read a Mencken quote I realize how few there are around today who can approach him in the way he expressed the pure unvarnished objective truth.