Quotation for This Week
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
H.L. Mencken, Minority Report (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 [1956]), p. 222.
(Hat tip Professor Boudreaux)
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