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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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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.