“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken.
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Usually misquoted as “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
He wrote the grimmer real line in the Sept. 19, 1926 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune.
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