Albert Jay Nock on Politicians"Rich as the English language is, one cannot mold it to the full expression of one’s contempt for the politician. Probably the nearest one can come to it is Kent’s opinion of Oswald, in King Lear." [from King Lear, Act II, scene 2] Kent: Fellow, I know thee. Oswald: What dost thou know me for? Kent: A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch. "Yet, complete as the thing seems to be, it lets the politician off easily as compared with my inexpressible opinion of him." ~
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