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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Democracy Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." Top 5 quotes from Democracy "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." "What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class." "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

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