The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken