[Celtman]

My favorite quote from H. L. Mencken:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

[Guilliamus]

Here is another favorite from Mencken:

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.