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H. L. Mencken Quotes

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.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

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Robert Winston

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Mary Beard

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Mitt Romney

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