“The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.” Has BeensWholeNationsHumourWitVoidIncapableScotch Book:The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.” ThinkingMenDoeIdeasDoneWholeFactsFacesLostTermEmotionHe ManOfficeMarkChiefsCandidatesVotersDreadOddsPacksDominantIncapableMediocreBarkElementalsWeighingPublic OfficeComprehendingDevious Author:H. L. Mencken