"When we appropriate money from the public funds……" — H. L. Mencken

"When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox"

— H. L. Mencken

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