“It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.”

—  H.L. Mencken , book Notes on Democracy

Notes on Democracy (1926), Part II, p. 99
1920s

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