Quotulatiousness

January 10, 2015

QotD: Honour and politics

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

It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice. Now and then, to be sure, a man of sounder self-respect may make a beginning, but he seldom gets very far. Those who survive are nearly all tarred, soon or late, with the same stick. They are men who, at some time or other, have compromised with their honour, either by swallowing their convictions or by whooping for what they believe to be untrue.

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

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