"It is inaccurate to say that I..." - Quote by H L Mencken
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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“Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”
“What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.”
“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.”
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“The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.”
“What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.”
“The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.”