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  • Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf
  • Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

    Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.
  • Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

    Men  
  • Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

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  • The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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  • The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.209, Knopf
  • [Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

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