Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact t...
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind...
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No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating...
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and ar...
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the reco...
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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the...
