Monday Ménage and A Plus One

H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. H.L. Mencken.