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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Democracy Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.8  Rate Quote 5 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?" "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "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." Top 5 quotes from Democracy "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." "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." "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people."

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