Politicians & Thinking

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”
—H.L. Mencken

This is why politicians don’t like people who think. SO many play right into their hands.

Henry Louis Mencken was a journalist, satirist, and social critic. He was born this day in 1880, and died in 1956 at 75.

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