A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a p…

H. L. Mencken
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A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013). Minority Report, p.69, Knopf
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