Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
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Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
Source: A little book in C major
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
Source: Prejudices Fourth Series
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
Source: Minority Report
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.”
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
Source: It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
Source: Baruch: The Public Years
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Source: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”