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H. L. Mencken1880–1956

In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken on voting

“Sham Battle”, Baltimore Evening Sun (26 October 1936); repr. A Carnival of Buncombe (1956), p. 325

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