Logo
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarme

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Politics
category

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesnt work. And whats good theater and whats good politics isnt necessarily good economic policy. – Michael Bloomberg

Category:
Politics

I dont really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism. – Marco Rubio

Category:
Politics

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I dont think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. – Tony Blair

Category:
Politics

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. – John Stuart Mill

Category:
Politics

Random Quotes

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You cant come in closer with the 35 mm. – Annie Leibovitz

Category:
environmental

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

Category:
Clothing

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Government

Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats – saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles. – Mark E. Hyman

Category:
diet