Henry Louis Mencken “A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” Henry Louis Mencken View all quotes by Henry Louis Mencken →
“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.” Henry Louis Mencken
