Quotulatiousness

November 1, 2014

QotD: The politician

Filed under: Politics, Quotations, USA — Tags: — Nicholas @ 00:01

The politician … is the courtier of democracy … it was of the essence of the courtier’s art and mystery that he flattered his employer in order to victimize him, yielded to him in order to rule him. The politician under democracy does precisely the same thing.

H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926.

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