"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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Obituary
Submitted by Guest on Fri, 2011-12-23 00:00
H. L. Mencken delivers an obituary for FDR: "It seems to me to be very likely that Roosevelt will take a high place in American popular history—maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln. […] He had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes."
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