"All the political seers and sorcerers seem to……" — H. L. Mencken

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the… - H. L. Mencken

"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 will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy."

— H. L. Mencken

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