Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Quote of the Day (H.L. Mencken, on “Professionally Dishonorable” Politicians)


“A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.”—H.L. Mencken quoted by Roger Butterfield, “Mr. Mencken Sounds Off” (interview), Life Magazine, August 5, 1946

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