Sunday, April 13, 2008

Panic And Liberals

"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." ---- H. L. Mencken

And another ...

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier." ---- H. L. Mencken

And one more ...

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." ---- H. L. Mencken

More here.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956, Baltimore), was a journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of the American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore," he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.

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