„Mit anderen Worten, die Regierung ist ein Hehler, und jede Wahl ist eine Art Vorverkauf für gestohlene Waren.“
Original
In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
As quoted in Charting the Candidates '72 (1972) by Ronald Van Doren, p. 7
1940s–present
Kontext: The state — or, to make the matter more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
Henry Louis Mencken 34
US-amerikanischer Publizist und Schriftsteller 1880–1956Ähnliche Zitate
Rede vor den Future Farmers of America, 28. Juli 1988
„Die Regierung besteht aus uns; wir sind die Regierung, du und ich.“
„Eigenartig
wie das Wort eigenartig
es fast als fremdartig hinstellt
eine eigene Art zu haben“
„Wenn ich die Wahl habe zwischen dem Nichts und dem Schmerz, dann wähle ich den Schmerz.“
