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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)- Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 1
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In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
“Sham Battle”, Baltimore Evening Sun (26 October 1936); repr. A Carnival of Buncombe (1956), p. 325
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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.