Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to...

Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

All government, of course, is against liberty.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health,...

Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health,...

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the...

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can...

Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who...

The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who...

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his...

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his...

Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of...

Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of...

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully...

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully...