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[kupcho1]

Which quote do you like best?

“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”
H.L. Mencken

“You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people”
Will Rogers

What say you?

(FOR THE RECORD: The 1938 quote attributed to Will Rogers is in fact a paraphrase of the quote by H.L. Mencken)

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Rogers. Punchier and more parsimonious.

 

[El Floppo]

Succinct wins.

 

[Socrates11]

I like this quote better-

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

 

[Brunell4MVP]

Both original quotes suck. American people aren't dumb. It's an old worn out schtick that journalists love to fall back on.