"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It..." - Quote by H L Mencken
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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“The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.”
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