H. L. Mencken Quote

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.


Prejudices: sixth series (ed. Knopf, 1927)


A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be...

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be...

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be...

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be...