The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
From H. L. Mencken
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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