"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he……" — H. L. Mencken

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• Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy. — Chris Christie
• This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may… — Frank I. Cobb
• Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich]… — Ian Kershaw
• Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a… — Moby
• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded… — Stephen Jay Gould
• Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity… — Chris Hedges
• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality… — James F. Cooper
• Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich.… — Ludwig von Mises
• The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever… — Karl Kraus
• [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are… — H. L. Mencken
• The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals. — Harry Golden

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