"Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people...." - Quote by H L Mencken

“There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.”

“The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.”

“How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.”

“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

“The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.”

“There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.”

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”