H. L. Mencken Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
Birthday: September 12
Death: January 29
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
source: H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”
topic: Believe, Effort, Political, Burglars, Good Politicians, Political Campaign
