“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”Tagged: Democracy
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”Tagged: Democracy, Inmates Running the Asylum
“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 are right.”Tagged: Democracy, Two-Party System
“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them…”Tagged: civilization, Maudlin, Hysterical , Democracy
“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 plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”Tagged: Democracy, White House, Moron
“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 records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has…”Tagged: Democracy, pathetic, Belief, Ignorance, Collective Wisdom