Quotes

Quotes...don't you just love them? With a quote, you can simply offer up another person's thoughts and you take no blame if it isn't well received! They said it...not you. You're just an intermediary. Here is a quote I received just a minute ago from a friend. Now remember, I didn't say it...

"...when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental -- men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre -- the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) writing in the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920