Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H. L. Mencken. American journalist and writer (1880–1956) , Henry Mencken. American journalist and writer (1880–1956) Ideas
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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.