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

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946 There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
994 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
983 The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
1013 Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
999 Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

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