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alan,
[off topic]
Thanks for noticing! I used to collect quotes and this was about my favorites. By today's standard he would be known as a racist (which is sad - more for what it says about the general racial climate in the early 1900s), but on most things, I think he was on the right side of the issues. He was also against gun control, of course!
Glad you enjoyed it.
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
-- H. L. Mencken
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