No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

Cultural  

1. People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products; attributed to H. L. Mencken.

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Example Sentences

The quotation “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people” is actually a paraphrase of a longer discourse by the Bard of Baltimore on that subject.

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Mencken — that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people — and applied it to politics.

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Mencken’s observation that “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”

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