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Doctrine Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it…
- The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and…
- The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- The older I grew the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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