August 17, 2009

On Town Hall Meetings

"The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one."
-Mark Twain

But those sixty people are convinced of an argument upon which there is no basis in reason - the thug makes a fool of his followers and a mockery of rational thought.

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