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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
— H. L. Mencken
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
— H. L. Mencken
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
— H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
— H. L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H. L. Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
— H. L. Mencken
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