"The State..."
Sep 18, 2018 17:03:57 #
"The State..."
“The state- or, to make matters more concrete, 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 it is made good by l**ting ‘A’ to satisfy ‘B’. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every e******n is a sort of advance auction on stolen goods.”
- H.L. Mencken, 1929
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“The state- or, to make matters more concrete, 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 it is made good by l**ting ‘A’ to satisfy ‘B’. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every e******n is a sort of advance auction on stolen goods.”
- H.L. Mencken, 1929
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