H. L. Mencken quote: Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...

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 ~

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