JANUARY 29, 1956 — DEATH OF H.L. MENCKEN, US JOURNALIST

1956 — DEATH OF H.L. MENCKEN, US JOURNALIST
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [Note: Mencken would have, no doubt, included the recent “fiscal cliff” negotiations as one such “hobgoblin.”)